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Liability insurance most likely

• rbanffy 4y ago
  Maybe patent rights as well. If the facilities belong to a company, they may want a piece.
• zbrozek 4y ago
  Stanford is self-insured and has weirdly inconsistent ideas around riskiness of various activities. And no risk appetite, tolerance, or ability to reevaluate once something has received its scarlet letter. As far as I can tell, the only way to do anything is to have it tied to a grant or sports. That profit motive provides back-pressure against risk aversion. That means non-research, non-sportsball activities are doomed to being sanitized to the point of boredom.