In the States, these arrangements often have joint IP ownership provisions of some sort (specific details are often confidential). If Lucid was paying the university for access to their resources, retaining IP would be more likely. Collaborative "partnerships", however, open the door for...
A major question for me is ownership of new IP from this relationship. There's no free lunch to be had in this deal. Will leveraging Lucid's tech IP in the future be diluted, as a result?
Lucid's Release was more descriptive:
https://media.lucidmotors.com/en/newsitem/1020-lucid-and-saudi-arabias-kaust-announce-strategic-partnership-to-advance-ev-technology-leadership-and-grow-autonomous-driving-and-advanced-driver-assist-system-capabilities
So, one could see this as a welcomed...
Wildly speculative?
I made no declarative statement, just posed a question. Our forum is replete with questions to which most of us have no confirmatory answers. Yet, we ask them for insight, perspective, or context.
What is Wall Street reacting to this morning? Is that not an appropriate...
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/LUCID-GROUP-INC-112589428/news/Lucid-Group-Inks-EV-Tech-Tie-up-with-Saudi-Arabian-University-49827991/
His technology going directly to the KSA via an academic partnership?
A "hug" in the form of timely and definitive information of status and delivery might have reduced the angst you are experiencing. That's what I meant. :-( So, sorry.
Got it now. What a self-inflicted wound on Lucid's part. From a promotional perspective, you are the cream of the crop -- Air Dream and Gravity Dream 1st Adopters (no disrespect intended to our other owners; just illustrating a presumptive expectation of white glove treatment to highlight a...
? Doesn't mean the Air Dream Owners actually placed orders right away. I think that offer was for place holders. I was extended that offer but chose not to, since I do not need an SUV.