Stanford University Startup policies and practices

Stanford’s Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) receives invention disclosures from Stanford faculty, staff and students. They evaluate these disclosures for their commercial possibilities, and when possible license them to industry. If the inventions are successfully licensed, cash royalties collected by OTL provide funding to the inventors' departments and schools, as well as personal shares for the inventors themselves.

Follow this link for general information on startups

Resources include:

• Policy and practices for the university and faculty members founding a startup
• Sample agreements and forms
• Guides for academic inventors and for startup founders