When I first heard about tech transfer offices, my naive self thought that they would make sure somebody doesn’t take publicly-funded research and patent it for personal profit. When I found out that’s because they actually want the profit to go to the university I was all :(
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What if publicly-funded universities made all of their research freely available to the public? Any patentable innovations could be licensed as Creative Commons (or similar). A boy can dream.
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