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Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) at

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Authority

  • 15 U.S.C. 3710, P.L. 99-502

Description

  • The CRADA is a partnering tool that allows federal laboratories to work with U.S. industries, academia and other organizations on cooperative R&D projects.

    The CRADA provides flexibility in structuring project contributions and intellectual property rights, and in protecting the NIST partner's proprietary information and CRADA research results.

Features/Characteristics

  • A pre-application memo and a statement of work are required to begin the approval process.

I.P. and Resource Commitment

  • Rights to inventions and other intellectual property concerns are negotiated between the laboratory and participant.

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