I once looked into licensing some software from an English university. At the very beginning of the discussion, I was read a long list of domains where the software had already been exclusively licensed. Great! We didn't fall into any of those domains, next question. It turned out I had misunderstood, the list was for domains where THEY thought the software should be each exclusively licensed to a third party.

There were other factors, but it became clear it wasn't worth the effort trying to license from the university.