Academic licensing

Marvin Sketch is a stmcture-editing tool, a component of java-based Marvin Tools provided via an academic license from the ChemAxon company [30] (Fig. 1.4). 

We would like to thank GVK Biosciences, India, for allowing the use of GVK DB under an academic license. We would also like to thank Dr. Solve Saebo at the Norwegian University of Life Science for providing the R package implementation of LPLS. 

One of the authors (L. Kulay) wishes to thank CAPES (Ministry of Education of Brazil) for the financial support. We also acknowledge the cooperation of REPSOL-YPF, and Hyprotech (now part of Aspentech) for the use of an academic license of Hysys.Plant . 

We thank Hyprotech (now part of ASPENTech) for the use of an academic license of HYSYS . Also we would like to thank the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain) for the PhD scholarship of I. Lopez-Arevalo and to the Universidad Autdnoma del Estado de Morelos (M6xico) for the PhD scholarship of A. Rodrfguez-Martfnez. 

Instant JChem 5.3.8 (ChemAxon, free Academic License available). 

Windows 3.x, 95, or NT, 40 MB hard drive, 16 MB RAM. Cost Depends on type perpetual license, fixed period license, non-commercial academic are available. For example, one-year lease including upgrades, training, and technical support is 11,500. 

Increasing knowledge is undertaken through a global R D network with academic centers and companies worldwide, as well as in-licensing opportunities for novel technologies, which complement their own R D capabilities. 

Many companies are investor-driven and, thus, have an intense dedication to development and success. But can a company with one or two products compete It appears it can. However, often the process requires merger or acquisition by larger firms fo succeed. Some companies sfarf ouf as "spin offs" of academic research, ofhers license a producf being developed by "big pharma," and ofhers sfarf as marketing or generic firms fhaf grow from fheir own success. 

This chapter is written primarily as a guide to running trials with new chemical entities during drug development. The principles described are also directly relevant to all other trials such as those comparing two or more licensed treatments (which may themselves be combinations) and research studies initiated and conducted in academic institutions without any support from the Pharmaceutical Industry. There will be some differences of detail in those other circumstances. 

This chapter will critique four software packages that are freely available to academics. No review of commercial software will be given. Each of the four packages will run under most flavours of UNIX, including Linux and Mac OSX, and most under Windows as well. Some require a license. Each is easily accessible over the web ... 

For HCS to be fully accepted by academia, several conditions will need to be fulfilled. Current HCS instruments are closed black boxes and their expensive maintenance contracts do not allow any hardware or software modifications for adaptation to the diverse needs of academic research. Academic research is typically more diversified than pharmaceutical industry research and the instruments need to be more customizable than they are now. In addition, the image and data formats need to be accessible and open. In academia data is shared between collaborators and will be analyzed with various, partly custom-made software. Therefore the data needs to be accessible and open. Lastly, the yearly costs of maintenance contracts and licenses are particularly difficult to finance in academic research that relies heavily on grants. Grants typically do not cover licensing costs or if they do, when the grant runs out, new sources of funding must be found. In reality, those costs must generally be covered by institutional funds. 

Roundtable members published a common industry view on key areas of green chemistry research [12]. Each year the Roundtable awards a research grant to an academic to work on one of the priority research areas identified by its members. These grants are open to any academic and are awarded by a research panel comprising selected members of the Roundtable. A list of research areas funded so far is presented in Table 16.2. It should be noted that any results of these Roundtable projects are to be published, for all to adopt, free from any IP license. 

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