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You're mostly wrong. Any research done under a university usually includes at least a partial ownership of any patents or licensing by the university.
by rubidium 9y ago
You're mostly wrong. Any research done under a university usually includes at least a partial ownership of any patents or licensing by the university.
- drak0n1c 9y agoDoes that come back to the federal funding in any way or do universities capture it all? Maybe there should be a stipulation that university profits above a certain threshold originating from federally funded research should help pay back the grant. That would allow more of the funding to be reused (akin to Kiva's microlending), and wean the system off of taxpayers.
- ModernMech 9y agoUniversities capture it all. I agree with you, and I would further suggest that any publications done using public money should be released under the public domain. As it stands, that research is behind paywalls, and in many cases, researchers pay (again using public funds) to put it there. In other cases, researchers paid using public funds are doing the editing and reviewing for free. That's a whole other discussion though.