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UCSD encourages sponsored research support from commercial
entities. Company funding for specific projects can provide
substantial benefits to both the researcher and the company.
It enables the researcher to receive additional funding for
support of laboratory personnel and other costs, collaborate
with company scientists in the development of a scope of work
for the research, and develop long-term relationships with
companies whose commercial interests are complementary to
the researcher’s interests. Such relationships also
have the added benefit of providing future employment for
UCSD graduate students or post docs who may be interested
in becoming company employees after they have completed their
formal education at the University.
Each campus of the University of California operates under
research administration policies formulated and distributed
by the Office of the President on behalf of The Regents of
the University of California; however, each campus maintains
its own offices for contract and grant administration. After
initial discussions have taken place between industrial sponsors
and University faculty or senior research staff, the UCSD
Office of Contract and Grant Administration (OCGA) may
then be contacted by the researcher or his/her department
to formalize the arrangements with the industrial sponsor.
This process includes submission of a research proposal by
the researcher/department to the OCGA for review and processing.
After, or concurrent with this review, the OCGA will contact
the authorized representative of the industrial sponsor and
negotiate the terms of a research contract between the two
organizations.
Since a research agreement is a legally binding contract,
authority to solicit, negotiate and execute agreements for
research at UCSD on behalf of The Regents of the University
of California is delegated to only a few authorized representatives
on each campus. Consult the OCGA
website to locate the appropriate UCSD representative.
More information available at the Office
of Graduate Studies & Research website.
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