human: What advantages are there in the exploitation of the inventions by the university?
assistant: The costs of the application, search, grant of patent and legal costs are borne by the university, if it unreservedly claims an invention. It is obliged to pay the compensation to the inventor, without him having to worry about the registration and patenting modalities or the marketing. In the event that the inventor has already made contact with lawyers or licensees, or he wants to set up a spin-off, the university will bear this in mind.		Many inventors welcome this "division of labour". They can carry on with their research and inventing, undisturbed, and following a short consultation with inventors' advisor the university deals with everything else upon transfer of the rights and an obligation to compensate.																				
Of course the university expects that increasing licensing fees resulting from the commercial exploitation of the invention will exceed the costs incurred. Such surplus monies can then be directed towards research and teaching at the university. In this way both fundamental and applied research can profit equally in future, while today we still need to prioritise due to a poor financial situation.