High-Tech Industry Contracts

MGMT X 408.64

Learn the major areas of managing high-technology contracts: licensing strategies, enforcing licenses, managing a joint venture, entering into and maintaining strategic alliances, and transferring of technology.

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What you can learn.

Define and distinguish the unique differences in managing contracts and organizational partnership such as joint ventures, strategic alliances, lease agreements, licensing, and transfers of technology
Recommend specific contract and partnership solutions for various business situations
Define the major legal terms and conditions applicable for each contract and partnership type
Describe the impact of using the different contracts and partnerships on a global scale across different geographies and cultures

About this course:

This course covers the major areas of managing high-technology contracts: licensing strategies, policing and enforcing licenses, forming and managing a joint venture, entering into and maintaining strategic alliances, and transferring technology. Emphasis is on the role of the contract manager in the areas of technology contracts in domestic and international transactions. Also included is a global market focus dealing with affiliated companies and divisions in other countries. Background data is provided for each major topic. Familiarization with the legal terms of technology contracts is emphasized, and the course covers both parties in the transactions.