For Business Partners

Researchers at the Universities of Basel, Bern and Zurich maintain a wide range of contacts and collaborations with industry partners. Unitectra supports researchers in negotiating the relevant contracts.
 

The contracting party in collaborations of any kind is the university, not the individual researcher or the university unit (institute etc.). Contracts with industry partners therefore require the university's approval to be legally valid. An exception is consultancy mandates, which researchers usually undertake privately as a secondary employment, provided the relevant university regulations are complied with and no university infrastructure or personnel are used for this purpose.
 

The rights to work results achieved by university members in their field of work belong to the university. Any commercial exploitation of such results requires a contractual arrangement approved by the university.