Professor Willie Donnelly:

It very much depends. There are national guidelines in this regard but it really depends on where the intellectual property originated and the percentage of investment the company put into the particular project. Another factor is the ability of the institute to leverage any additional funding from the work. There is a scale involved. The most important point, however, is that we are part of a national programme, the technology transfer programme, for which guidelines are given nationally. We apply those national guidelines.