The Legal Team
Research and Innovation's legal experts can assist with completing and negotiating contracts free of charge. Contracts help ensure that all conditions and guidelines for the collaboration have been recorded in writing, just as they can be used subsequently in the event of any disagreements or disputes.
For employees
Capital Region of Denmark employees are required to have Research and Innovation review any contracts with partners before signing them. If this does not occur, the contract may be considered null and void.
Protecting your rights
Research
and Innovation will take any necessary steps to protect your interests in a
legal context in the quickest, best way possible. That’s why our goal is to
process incoming contracts within 14 days. We ensure your rights and those of
the organisation and department in terms of, for example:
- Publication rights
- Using results in further internal research
- No personal liability
- Applicable legislation and governing jurisdiction (choice of court of law)
Types of agreements for
external partners
As an
enterprise, if you have legal questions on collaboration with the Capital
Region of Denmark, please contact the Legal Team, where legal advisers provide guidance
and negotiate the following types of contracts on behalf of Capital Region of
Denmark employees:
Clinical trial agreements
Confidentiality agreements/non-disclosure agreements
Sub-site agreements
Collaboration agreements
Material transfer agreements
Consultancy contracts
Agreements with the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation
Advance transfer of patent rights
Agreements on PhD scholarships and professorships
Collaboration agreements on public-private innovation
Standard clinical trial
agreements
The five
Danish Regions, all of which can facilitate clinical trials in Denmark, have three
approved standard agreements available for enterprises.
Using
standard agreements is voluntary but doing so helps ensure a quicker, smoother initial
phase because obtaining approval from the Capital Region’s legal advisers
merely becomes a formality.
Standard
agreements cover these three areas:
Technology transfer
The University of Copenhagen’s (UCPH) Tech Transfer Office is responsible for the commercial aspects of collaborations, including:
- Ensuring optimal conditions for collaboration between universities and external partners, including negotiating all agreements on the universities’ intellectual property rights (IPR)
- Protecting and handling UCPH’s IPR
- Assessing the commercial potential of research results
- Commercialising research results
Read more about Tech Transfer Office at UCPH site