By Leibniz University Hannover
At LUH, commercial companies have the opportunity to exploit technologies developed at the university (taking into consideration any restrictions, e.g. for inventions from publicly funded research projects). In turn, the university expects a share in the added value created. For this purpose, LUH normally grants licences. Protective rights are generally not sold. Exploitation contracts should not impede the university's further core missions – research and teaching. Therefore, these agreements are generally created in accordance with the interests of the university institutes and facilities involved in the invention. Exploitation contracts are negotiated for the university by Research and Innovation Services (department 4).
