Timothy Burke: is this a good thing? (from the Cade museum, which currently has an exhibit with an exhaustive number of artifacts from the recording and release of Tom Petty's Wildflowers album, and is very cool.)

is this a good thing? (from the Cade museum, which currently has an exhibit with an exhaustive number of artifacts from the recording and release of Tom Petty's Wildflowers album, and is very cool.)

It would seem to me that this falls, at least partially, under the public outreach mission of the nation’s public universities. Don’t we want smart people to stay in academics rather than abscond for the bling offered by the private sector?

Yes but we should pay them well enough to stay there while ensuring that the American People who paid to create such innovations retain ownership of it

Yes—you’re making my point for me. A proper technology transfer policy/program, as Joi Ito’s Jibo mentioned above, allows universities to fulfill their public service and outreach mission while remunerating the inventors. We don’t want to disincentivize innovation, right?

Agreed but this is always going to be fundamentally separate from that concern, at least because most university researchers will never have a profitable patent. I think that the govt ensuring access comes down to individual inventions.

Two that come to mind are mRNA and the encoding for HDTV, both of which are university-licensed tech.

Yeah, Bayh-Dole is a good thing, absolutely. www.uspto.gov/learning-and...

Gatorade legacy whets daughter’s thirst for 'inventivity'www.uspto.gov Sixty years after her father’s invention made a splash on the football field, Phoebe Cade Miles and her Cade Museum staff continue Dr. James Cade’s legacy by encouraging 'inventivity' for all American...

A good tech transfer standard is 1/3 profits go to the university at large, 1/3 to the department, and 1/3 to the individual inventors. The university is able to solicit and negotiate licensing agreements with industry while retaining ownership.

How much did the kids bother you to leave and go to Depot Park?

it was pretty empty TBH. We looked at all the exhibits and then walked over to Lauren Groff's bookstore

Peak Gainesville

That’s interesting, I thought the change was prompted by the very long running Hayflick royalty dispute (covered in this article under “Stakeholder Controversy”). thebiomedicalscientist.net/science/cont...

A controversial lifethebiomedicalscientist.net Latest biomedical science news and analysis from the magazine of the Institute of Biomedical Science.

bad thing

I'm choosing to believe this means that Gatorade gave the lawyers and grant writers the electrolytes and quick-energy dextrose they needed to power through the paperwork needed to privately monetize publicly-funded research.

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