> You take public money to do research, any fruits from that money belong to the public TBF we did try this in the US, and this is exactly how things worked fo

> You take public money to do research, any fruits from that money belong to the public TBF we did try this in the US, and this is exactly how things worked for decades. That rule was eventually shot down for a whole host of reasons. > If you purely take private money you work in some startup you can do stuff like this How about this scenario: Person A invents something using public money. Person B creates a start-up using Person A's invention. Person C needs said invention, and can only get it from Person B, who charges them for it. In other words, if the fruits of the labor are going to be extracted by someone, shouldn't that someone be the person who made the actual discovery (assuming they're willing to do the business side as well)?