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> Intellectual property generated at universities that accept any taxpayer funding whatsoever should belong to the taxpayer Not everything generated at a unive
by vineyardmike 2y ago
> Intellectual property generated at universities that accept any taxpayer funding whatsoever should belong to the taxpayer
Not everything generated at a university that takes tax money is government owned, but everything the government funds is available to the government.
> private research centers (e.g. Bell Labs)
Companies like Google or Apple have been funding tons of research. I worked for a government research lab doing medical research. The research being done for the Apple Watch was miles better than ours, because it had way more funding.
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh–Dole_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh–Dole_Act
- ioblomov 2y agoBell Labs, with all its ground-breaking, Nobel-winning research—from the transistor to UNIX and the cosmic microwave background to information theory—is an extreme outlier because, outside of rich governments themselves, only the unlimited resources of a government-sanctioned monopoly could fund basic research that, at the time, would have no obvious utility. Though the fruits were smaller in scale, Xerox PARC is another rare example.