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.
