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　　　　IP practice variation by agency

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The differing IT policies of different agencies, encapsulated in their respective legislative instruments, are a result of differing ‘characters’ as well as differing research purposes
The FAR allows each agency to develop its own ‘agency-specific’ FAR, which in practice most agencies do, resulting in significant variation in IP policy between agencies
The abundance of legislation and regulations means that in practice there is significant variance in the negotiation of IP issues
The IP policies of the different agencies strongly reflect their ‘institutional characters’ and histories
The nature of research of an agency is the other key driver of IT policy
The agencies have very different profiles in terms of nature of research
Agency policies can be summarized by their mix of research purpose and institutional nature