What is a Joint Laboratory? What are the differences with a classical research collaboration contract and/or a framework agreement? What are the criteria for collaboration via a joint laboratory? What funding should be sought for the establishment of a joint laboratory?
The Innovation Act was created in 1999 to encourage technology transfer from public research to businesses.
A fund-raising operation takes the form of an investment in the capital of a company, in return for a cash contribution from an investor. It allows the company to ensure its growth by investing, for example, in the purchase of equipment or the recruitment of personnel. It concerns unlisted companies. It can be minority or majority owned.
A research project is punctuated by milestones marking the achievement of key stages. Milestones can be, for example, the end of a critical review of the state of the art, the finalisation of a concept demonstrator or the approval of an experimental evaluation protocol... The laboratory that has the task of carrying out the research work undertakes to record these advances in deliverables and to provide them to the partner by a defined deadline. The delivery date generally corresponds to the closing date of the research phase and triggers an invoicing milestone.
