IPIRA handles agreements with third parties for UC Berkeley’s innovation and entrepreneurship programs. These are called Innovation Services Agreements and may be entered with startup companies, accelerators, incubators, and economic development organizations. By handling Innovation Services, IPIRA helps nurture and enhance: Berkeley’s relationships with entrepreneur networks on and off campus, its contracting authorities, its stewardship of campus intellectual property, and its connection to university compliance offices. IPIRA also has ample experience with the policy issues relevant to providing such programs to extramural partners: conflict of interest (including a new form developed for this purpose for SSUFIEs), conflict of commitment, space planning, intellectual property, export control, animal use and care, environmental health and safety, and risk management.