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Faculty Roadmap for a Start-up Company

This version of the Faculty Roadmap for a Start-Up Company is directed to the situation where a full-time Academic Senate faculty member (the Professor) of the University of California, Davis (UC Davis, or University), who is not at the Medical School or the School of Veterinary Medicine, makes an invention (the Invention) at UC Davis and participates in the formation of a start-up company (the New Company) which in-licenses, or seeks to in-license, the Invention from UC Davis (it is intended that subsequent versions of the Roadmap will cover other categories of researchers). Steps/considerations in this situation include the following:

Faculty Roadmap Process Flow 1. Research Plan and Funding2. Invention3. Licensing4. Starting a New Company5. University Procedures Concerning Faculty Role in Starting New Company6. New Company Funding of Research at UC Davis

The Faculty Roadmap contains many links to other sites at UC Davis, the UC Office of the President, and outside the UC system. For a complete index of these links, please click here.

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