The co-funded research collaboration involves universities, research institutes and companies, which co-finance part of the project costs. Most of the funding comes from Business Finland or the EU, for example. The basic principle in these projects is that the IPR rights belong to the organization(s) that has created it. If there are employees from more than one organization, those organizations jointly own the IPR rights. Companies involved in co-financed projects will have the primary right to negotiate the right to use or own the results for their own business.
