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| | Can I use university provided laptop for working on my own startup? | |
15 points by curor213 on March 12, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 28 comments
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| | I was given a laptop from the University where I am currently working towards my PhD. My professor approved a laptop for me from his available funds. The co-ordinator of the lab ordered it from Apples's website and it was first vetted and secured by the IT staff of the department. I am currently in my 3rd year and I came up with a product idea, unrelated to my dissertation. I am working on the idea using my university laptop, will that be an issue in the future, especially if I start full-time on my product (in case it works out). |
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This isn't across the board, and different institutions have completely different approaches, but certainly in some countries there may be terms contained in PhD funding project. In some countries, a PhD studentship is treated formally as a fixed term employment with contract. In others it isn't. It's worth checking if they have any claim to ideas you create while working on your PhD, as you might want to be very careful to stop having ideas for a while if that was the case...
That the topic is unrelated to your dissertation may not be relevant if there is such a clause, but you should probably check this out, in addition to considering the "acceptable IT use" agreement or whatever your institution has in place, to see if they disallow use for personal business.