Time to market is important, so why spend time and money negotiating confidentiality, material transfer or collaborative research agreements when the work has been done for you?

To simplify the process of collaborating with a research partner, the Scottish university partners have agreed a series of downloadable, standardised legal agreements that will be agreed by both parties prior to project initiation.

Please note that these agreements should be used as a starting point and all discussions should be undertaken by the business and their academic partner.

Confidentiality Agreements & Letters
These are used at the initial stages to discuss projects and safeguard your ideas.


Consultancy Agreement


Innovation Voucher Legal Agreements


Research Agreements


Studentship Agreements

The Brunswick agreements https://arma.ac.uk/updated-brunswick-agreements/ available for all UK Universities are based upon the above suite of agreements which had been generated and agreed for use by all Scottish universities and have been subject to consultation with both Russell Group and Brunswick Group Universities.