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NDA and academia? I guess that's considered normal but it would be good if there were checks and balances on the NDAs.
by fouc 5y ago
NDA and academia? I guess that's considered normal but it would be good if there were checks and balances on the NDAs.
- cozzyd 5y agoThe only NDAs I'm familiar with are with vendors... maybe different in other fields.
- blip54321 5y ago... the MIT standard form NDA includes a clause which, in effect, says "You will not talk about the existence of this NDA." I'm not sure you'd know.
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- kergonath 5y agoI’ve never had to sign an NDA and my whole career is in academia, and a lot of it with funding and partners from industry. The only colleagues I know (some of them working on nuclear materials, so quite sensitive) who are in this kind of situation is because of security clearance, and universities have nothing to do with it. It’s definitely not normal, and should actually raise some red flags. I would like to know which institution does this sort of things.
- blip54321 5y agoMIT uses NDAs and non-disparage agreements to cover up research fraud. It's not uncommon.
- kergonath 5y agoI am not really convinced that it is “not uncommon”. Maybe MIT does but again, I have never had a colleague sign any. And I personally would not work for an institution that does.
- blip54321 5y agoHow would you know? You might be working for an institution that does this right now. I was intimidated into signed an NDA which says I can't talk about the NDA. The threats were serious, and I don't talk about that NDA. Unless you're at senior levels of your university, you wouldn't know about sketchy stuff like this going on. The way to solve this would be to extend restrictions on federal grant funding and financial aid to only encompass institutions which don't use tools like this.
- Fomite 5y agoI've signed a couple, but they've all been due to working with private industry.