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Capped Potential: How Federal Indirect Cost Rate Limits Could Disrupt University Tech Transfer and Stifle American Innovation

Authors

  • Director of Research Security and Intellectual Property The Council on Government Relations

Summary

  • The push by government agencies to cap indirect cost reimbursement at 15% is not just about sponsored research. TTOs are also likely to be impacted, limiting staffing, IP protection budgets, and support for start-up formation.
  • The expected reduction in research will directly shrink TTOs invention disclosure pipelines, reducing the number of inventions that make it into public use.
  • The Joint Associations Group (JAG) has been formed to proactively create a new cost reimbursement model that preserves the integrity of the academic research and innovation ecosystem.

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