Confidentiality Policy
National Science Foundation Grant # 0120188


  1. All information provided by the corporations, firms, and individual informants who participate in this research will be treated as confidential.
  2. Reports of this research, whether published, unpublished, or oral, will not identify individual informants by name, title, or organizational affiliation.
  3. Reports, whether published, unpublished, or oral, will not identify participating organizations (corporations or venture capital firms) unless express permission is given in advance.
  4. All informants who participate in the research will be informed of the names of the entire set of participating organizations, but they will not be informed of the identity of the other individuals who are serving as informants.


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