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This is essentially how research universities work. The 'large cash prize' tends to be either tenure or a fat consulting job.
by notauser 18y ago
This is essentially how research universities work.
The 'large cash prize' tends to be either tenure or a fat consulting job.
- gravitycop 18y agoThis is essentially how research universities work. Research universities do not give away the technologies they develop. They sell or license them for millions of dollars. http://www.google.com/search?q=university+patent+license+million http://www.google.com/search?q=university+patent+license+mil... I believe JesseAldridge above was referring instead to government funding R&D and then simply giving away the technology the way the daguerreotype photographic process was given away. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype Instead of Daguerre obtaining a French patent, the French government provided a pension for him. In Britain, Miles Berry, acting on Daguerre's behalf, obtained a patent for the daguerreotype process on 14 August 1839. Almost simultaneously, on 19 August 1839, the French government announced the invention as a gift "Free to the World".