Who owns the laptop bought with funding for student training etc. in a fully funded PhD project? I am a PhD student at a UK university and the project is a collaboration between the University and an industrial partner. My question is when the laptop is bought using the extra money allocated for training etc., who owns the laptop?
If it isn't specified in the collaboration contract, ask the funding agency for clarification - this may be determined on a case-to-case basis.



Single data point: I had funding as PhD student via a sholarship that also had an expenses budget.


When I bought stuff that was in between consumables and small instruments (to be precise, VUV-quality CaF2 slides). At reimbursement, the funding agency stipulated that they should become property of the institute. 
In contrast, there was no such stipulation for some books I bought from the same budget.