Universities and Business: Legal Aspects of Effective Cooperation

Practical experience is essential to high-quality education. However, partnerships between universities and companies raise a number of legal issues. Now, senior figures from the legal departments of leading Russian universities are ready to share their case studies and enter into a dialogue with company lawyers.
• Establishing company facilities at universities (departments, labs, etc.): reaching talent, or an unnecessary headache?
• Company training and internships for students: potential pitfalls.
• Network partnerships between universities and companies: combining resources to provide training.
• Involving companies in course quality assessment: learning to forget the phrase, “forget everything you learnt at university”.
• Joint scientific development: sharing intellectual property.