Partner with the Office of Sponsored Programs to engage Boise State University’s faculty, staff, and students to support your business needs.
The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) challenges the status quo and finds creative solutions to address industry sponsors’ research and creative activity needs. Blue Turf Thinking is pervasive in everything we do, including our innovative agreement terms and conditions that reduce risk and support our sponsors’ market competitiveness. As you read below and speak with our Contracting team, you’ll see our commitment to delivering value in unexpected ways. When you succeed, we do too!
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Partnering with the Office of Sponsored Programs provides many advantages to your business. Our skilled team can connect you with faculty, professional staff, and students, as well as technologies available to license from Boise State University’s intellectual property portfolio, to support your organization’s diverse needs. As Idaho’s largest public university and a doctoral research institution (high research activity), Boise State University offers about 200 programs of study, including 14 doctoral programs, across seven academic colleges. Coupled with our interdisciplinary research and creative activities focused on solving Grand Challenges, this means we have the expertise you need!
We provide sponsors with flexible and transparent intellectual property licensing options with no hidden fees. We also provide sponsors with ownership options for intellectual property generated during sponsored projects.
In addition to our standard self-insurance, we provide sponsors with commercial insurance and indemnity options to manage risk related the Boise State University’s performance of sponsored projects.
We recognize that the security of sponsors’ data and systems is critically important. That’s why we provide sponsors with flexible and clearly identified information security standards that are provided by our Institute for Pervasive Cybersecurity as appropriate.
We have a proven track record of happy partners and positive influence to back it up. Check out a sampling of our success stories to see how we’ve been working with teams like yours to find win-win solutions.
We’re excited to meet you. Please reach out and we’ll help you find the right path to your goals.
Contact the Office of Sponsored Programs' Contracting team.The following Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement was designed for efficiency and consistency with our Industry-Sponsored Research Agreement, and with industry sponsors’ needs in mind. To enter into this agreement with Boise State University, please email the Office of Technology Transfer at techtransfer@boisestate.edu.
The following Industry-Sponsored Research Agreement templates are used by Boise State University to contract with industry sponsors for their research and creative activity needs. The terms and conditions are consistent with our Industry Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement and were collaboratively developed with businesses to address some of industry sponsors’ primary concerns, including intellectual property licensing and ownership, confidentiality, information security, insurance, indemnity, and publication. We would appreciate an opportunity to share details about these unique agreements. Please contact our Contracting team to schedule a Zoom or in-person conversation.
The following document sets forth the upfront commercial intellectual property licenses outlined in Paragraph G, Intellectual Property, of the Industry-Sponsored Research Agreement. We would appreciate an opportunity to share details about these innovative intellectual property licenses. Please contact our Contracting team to schedule a Zoom or in-person conversation.
Sponsoring a project at Boise State University is easy. The steps include:
If you’re interested, more detailed engagement steps are available here. Please reach out to our Contracting team with any questions.