[katten]

In Sweden at 2000, there were a couple of students that made a software to Volvo that could detect if the driver was tired. This driver alert system was the first in the world.

Both students were not employees of Volvo, but still forced to register the system to Volvos internal system for innovation and got 122 000 SEK (15 k $).

2014 they got help from Swedish engineers for a lawsuit towards Volvo cars about 8,7 million sek/student (around 1 million $) for the system (about 3% of the worth of the sales system). Now the lawsuit was drawn back and they did meet on a secret sum from the company and both are today employees of Volvo.

With that said, from what I can see the Academia/Chalmers did not try to take any % of the cut.

Link to the article: https://www.gp.se/ekonomi/volvo-g%C3%B6r-upp-om-miljontvist-...

Link to Swedish engineers: https://www.sverigesingenjorer.se

[cycomanic]

Chalmers does not even retain IP from employees, much less students. The case with the students and Volvo was because they were doing a masters thesis at Volvo and Volvo was trying to claim that all IP developed during that belonged to them. However in Europe such agreements are likely invalid, because an agreement always has to be beneficial to both sides, in this case to give up your IP you have to be paid.

It's quite funny that so many here are claiming universities are claiming student IP, but one of the main cases we find is of a company trying to claim IP without paying.