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Comment on Research ethics training by Latimer Alder

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The golden bullet is that UEA do not allow individual academics to make confidentiality agreements. So even if Jones had negotiated such things (and there is absolutely no evidence beyond self-assertion that he did), he was acting beyond his authority as an employee of the university to do so.

Here’s the relevant section:
‘As you will note from points 1 & 2 of our policy; no UEA employee, except
members of our office, has the right to sign anything on behalf of the
university – the problem is that funders/other parties can be sneaky by
sending the agreement in the name of the academic.

Our policy is:-
Someone from the Commercialisation & Enterprise Team should approve and sign
all Confidentiality Agreements:
only our staff have the legal authority to sign agreements on behalf of the
University
all agreements should be between the University of East Anglia and the party
requesting the agreement (not an individual academic or school)
we will negotiate with the other party on any issues within the document that
may be contentious
by doing this we will ensure you the best protection of your IP rights
(In special circumstances, authorisation may be obtained from the
Commercialisation & Enterprise Team allowing you to sign the agreement
yourself. Such authorisation must always be obtained in advance, will only be
valid for a specific instance, and the standard university agreement must be
used without amendment – unless we have authorised an amendment)
In all cases, a copy of the fully signed confidentiality agreement must be
retained in our office’


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