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Category Archives: Vannever Bush
How Bayh-Dole went wrong and what might be done, 2
The nature of federal research contracts Let’s work through how Bayh-Dole might have been structured. We start with the nature of federal contracts. A federal contract is not quite like a conventional contract formed under state laws. The federal government … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Vannever Bush
Tagged Bayh-Dole, federal contracts, PHS, Vannevar Bush
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The Bush Engine of Technology Innovation
Vannevar Bush argued that it was a proper role for the federal government to support scientific research. This proposition today is regarded as a truth that hardly needs justification. But in Science the Endless Frontier, Bush was not arguing for … Continue reading
Posted in History, Innovation, Policy, Social Science, Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged BETI, free play of free intellects, Vannevar Bush
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The beating of Vannevar Bush will continue until productivity improves
Apparently it is popular in science policy to think that Vannevar Bush failed to have insights worth pursuing when it comes to science policy. Dan Sarewitz calls him a liar. Venkatesh Narayahnamurti and Toluwalogo Odumosu blame him for a distinction between … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, Policy, Vannever Bush
Tagged freedom, policy, rules, science, Vannevar Bush
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Was Vannevar Bush So Wrong?
Over at Science of Science Policy there’s more discussion of Vannevar Bush, this time attributing to Bush the “linear model” of innovation that asserts that basic research leads to discoveries that applied research then prepares for development into commercial products, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Innovation, Social Science, Sponsored Research, Vannever Bush
Tagged endless frontier, science, Vannevar Bush
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The Public Research Patent Covenant–Narrative Version
The Institutional Patent Agreement approach to patent rights arising from federally supported research carried with it what we may call a public covenant, a set of conditions that run with each patent on a subject invention that place limits on … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Commons, Policy, Social Science, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged Bayh-Dole, Bremer, IPA, middlemen, public covenant
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Vannevar Bush’s seductive lie
At The New Atlantis, Dan Sarewitz has published an interesting article, “Saving Science.” While there’s plenty to discuss regarding his major theme, that scientists “must come out of the lab into the real world,” here I’d like to deal with a … Continue reading
Vannevar Bush and the Unexpected Model of Innovation
In Science and Technology Policy in the United States: Open Systems in Action, Sylvia Kraemer spends a section of a chapter discussing Vannevar Bush and Science the Endless Frontier. Kraemer agrees that Science the Endless Frontier is an important document in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Innovation, Policy, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged AUTM, Benoit Godin, innovation, linear model, Sylvia Kraemer, tea, Vannevar Bush
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The Free Play of Free Intellects
The Bayh-Dole Act has been championed as a great turning point in the federal government’s management of inventions made by university faculty (for the most part) supported by federal money. The impression meant to be left with us is that … Continue reading
Posted in Agreements, Commons, Freedom, History, IP, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged free play, Vannevar Bush
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The Entrepreunial Research University
Three narratives have come together to support the transformation of American university innovation policy from one of diversity and institutional support to one of monopoly institutional control of research inventions, heralded as the best thing for the country. All the … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged Atkinson, Bayh-Dole, entrepreneurial university, Godin, linear model, Science the Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush
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Francis Bacon, Vannevar Bush, and Technology Transfer
Peter Harrison and Benoît Godin trace the history and transformation of two of the critical concepts that underlie the present formula for university research: curiosity and innovation. Remarkably, both concepts have much of their early existence as negative things, to be … Continue reading
Posted in History, Social Science, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged caritas, commercialization, Francis Bacon, research, technology transfer, Vannevar Bush
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