New ways of working and new types of end product require new modes of delivery.
The Haldane-Spearman Consortium is structured to differentiate commercial delivery and innovation from traditional supply. Commercial delivery will require absorption of project management and supply chain risks as well as sharing innovation/exploitation risks with the MoD. This will achieve value for money for the MoD and create efficiencies and savings in various applied research areas.
Innovative knowledge management and exploitation is both a tool and an end goal, and as such requires a new and forward thinking mode of delivery all its own. The Haldane-Spearman Consortium recognises the importance of achieving the best possible system of knowledge management, and also of the benefits that can be gained from collaboration with others. Current active engagement with best-of-breed partners is underway to ensure that the customer benefits from both the Consortium's skills and world class, commercially available best practice, with best-of-breed inputs into knowledge management and exploitation. For more information see our Knowledge Management page.
With the delivery of an end product comes the management of both utilised and newly created intellectual property.
The Haldane-Spearman Consortium understands the importance of integrity and consistency in this field and therefore a Collaboration Agreement has been entered into, including a multi-party non-disclosure agreement to ensure that confidentiality obligations with respect to disclosures between parties are fully and legally covered.
The Consortium principles on accessing information:
access to relevant background information between parties working together on task(s) generated by the project;
use of background information strictly controlled for the purposes of working on the task(s);
generation of foreground information vests with the party generating the foreground information;
sharing of foreground information between the parties necessary in order to effectively work together on task(s).