I think anything you do to drive upfront transparency of any IP ownership as output is critical. What that lets you do is decide whether you want to do it in the first place. If the IP outcome is not favourable, you'll know that and may decide not to participate. If it is, then you will participate.
We've actually had situations where we've done joint R and D projects, multi-year R and D projects, with grant funding from the NRC and Canadian universities together, where we had those upfront agreements. In the end, because we did jointly implement some products that went to market, they wanted to renegotiate those agreements as well.
I think transparency is great up front. Sticking to it is even better.