A public institution may, via its research laboratories, provide a scientific or technical service (measurement, test, characterisation, study) at the third party’s request. The service commits the laboratory’s resources and is formalised by a contract. Contrary to a collaboration contract, the institution commits itself to results.
In Intellectual Property (IP), the notion of quota-share is applied to two different concepts: on the one hand, the respective ownership between institutions (public and/or private) of an intellectual property title (a patent, software, etc.) or know-how; on the other hand, the respective inventive contribution of the inventors/authors (staff of the institutions) to the protected intellectual creation.
Pre-maturation is the real link between intellectual creation and valorisation: it is the preliminary phase of the valorisation process of an innovative result, i.e., one that is new in relation to the state of the art in science and technology.
