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> Commercializing creates jobs, tax income, and encourages the best and brightest to focus on the issue. There's nothing preventing the fruits of research from
by mannerheim 5y ago
> Commercializing creates jobs, tax income, and encourages the best and brightest to focus on the issue.
There's nothing preventing the fruits of research from being commercialised just because that research has been made public domain.
> Your asking for the government to additionally have its own scientific publication journal that is free. Not a bad idea, but also maybe not the best of ideas.
There is already a similar requirement for NIH grants. Research produced with NIH grants has to be made available on PubMed Central.
- bushbaba 5y agoPubmed is accessible to the world. Not just American entities. Wouldn’t it benefit America to ensure funded research is used to benefit the American interest. Not saying it’s right but the system I believe is currently WAI.
- mannerheim 5y agoWell, that does it, I suppose. We can't require that public money goes to actually benefiting the public because God forbid people outside of America might also benefit from it.
- cycomanic 5y agoResearch is one of the most international activities. Trying to restrict it to only be open to your nation will quickly land you in a spot where you quickly fall behind.