use a collaboration agreement when you and another party are looking to work together on a commercial project on a collaborative or cooperative basis. the agreement sets out the terms and conditions for the collaboration and includes a project schedule where the parties can specify what project the parties will collaborate on. a collaboration agreement can help avoid any uncertainties and can clarify the nature and scope of your relationship with your collaborator. a collaboration allows both parties to benefit from the expertise that each can offer. it may be possible to charge each party in connection with the collaboration. this means that one party may have to pay the other for any resources. this is not the same as the actual project that the parties are collaborating on. for example, the overall goal of the collaboration may be to combine the expertise of the development and design of software.

a collaboration agreement is a contract between two or more individuals or businesses who would like to undertake a new discrete project. in a partnership, the parties are deciding to work together indefinitely. in a collaboration agreement, the most important provisions have to do with the parties’ duties and obligations and what is expected of each of them for the project.