Initial Proposal Review

What is involved?

 

Why?

 

How?

While reviewing the Statement of Work and Proposal Submission, the administrator should consider whether they contain any of language or terms that:

· References U.S. export regulations

· Restricts non-U.S. entity participation based on country of origin

· Prohibits access by non-U.S. citizens to project information

· Prohibits the hiring of non-U.S. persons

· References the need to train specific personnel for a special purpose; i.e., a defense service

· Addresses the use of proprietary information

· Addresses security concerns

· Grants the sponsor pre-approval right on publications

· Grants the sponsor a right to prepublication review for matters other than the inclusion of patent and/or proprietary sponsor information

· Allows the sponsor to claim resulting research information as proprietary or trade secret.

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