Consulting Agreement

Companies are often interested in an exchange of ideas with experts in their field of activity. A consulting agreement deals with the rights and duties of both parties, e.g. the compensation paid to the expert.

Consulting is often done as a private activity. It is therefore important to follow the regulations of the personnel statutes in order to avoid a conflict of interests between your duties as a university employee on the one hand and a consultant on the other hand. Consulting should be restricted to the ideas of the company. If additional research work is demanded of the consultant, then a research agreement between the university and the industry partner has to be set up. Under a privately executed consulting agreement no university infrastructure or personnel is to be used. Furthermore, it is important to note that inventions made in the research field of the researcher are owned by the university and may not be assigned to the company in the context of a private consulting agreement.

Unitectra can send you an example of a consulting agreement. The scientist, however, bears the whole responsibility as the contract is usually concluded as a private person.