Agreements and Funding

Agreements and Funding

Intellectual property: decide the rules while nothing is worth anything

Every intellectual property discussion is easy before there is a result and hard afterwards.

19/08/2026 4 min read

Agreements and Funding

Managing a three-year project: the people who signed it will not all be there at the end

Over three years, staff change, priorities shift, and anything held only in memory disappears.

19/08/2026 4 min read

Agreements and Funding

Bilateral funding: the constraint is usually that both sides must be ready at the same time

Joint calls sound straightforward until you discover the two national deadlines and two sets of eligibility rules.

19/08/2026 4 min read

Agreements and Funding

Budgeting across two economies: under-funding the local side is the expensive mistake

A budget that looks generous from one side can be structurally inadequate on the other.

19/08/2026 4 min read

Agreements and Funding

Agreements: get the data and authorship clauses right, everything else is renegotiable

Most collaboration agreements are generous about intent and silent about the two things that later cause disputes.

19/08/2026 4 min read