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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 Purpose of the Patent System for University Research
There is a general argument that the patent is a pretty useful cultural tool to stimulate and reward technological innovation. The owner of a patent has the right to exclude others from practicing (making, having made, using, selling, offering for … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Commons, Freedom, History, Policy, Social Science, Technology Transfer
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Dual selectivity or dual monopoly? What’ll it be?
Archie Palmer’s surveys of university patent policies make clear that most universities for a long time did not have a patent policy, and when they did write a policy, often it recorded ad hoc practices–for the vast majority of universities, … Continue reading
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Patent policy as norming myth, with antidotes
Among those developing university patent policies, Archie Palmer was the Johnny Appleseed, publishing surveys and discussions of university patent policies for over three decades, from the 1930s to the 1960s. Palmer argued that it was important that universities have patent … Continue reading
Compel them to come in
The Christian religion became political when Constantine decriminalized Christianity (313) and Theodorus later made it the state religion (380). At that point, the ad hoc development of beliefs and founding texts became a matter of official business–the norming myths required … Continue reading
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Dealing with Norming Myths
There’s a new study out at Future Internet that looks at how Wikipedia’s norms have developed over the years. In “The Evolution of Wikipedia’s Norm Network,” Bradi Heaberlin and Simon DeDeo examine Wikipedia’s form of governance and find it to … Continue reading
Was Bayh-Dole based on a misconception?
In an article published in 2013, Sean O’Connor argues that Bayh-Dole is the descendant of what he calls “the Biddle Report,” produced in 1947 by Assistant Attorney General John F. Sonnett (with final editing done by David Lloyd Kreeger) in … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research, Stanford v Roche
Tagged Biddle, government contract, invention, patent, university policy
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Faculty IP and Academic Freedom, Part I
I am working out how to disrupt the now-pervasive use of management-speak to describe the obligations of university faculty with regard to intellectual property they produce–largely, almost entirely their personal intellectual property, by operation of federal copyright and patent law, prior … Continue reading
Banging Our Hearts Against the Wall
Now that an arguably effective national infrastructure for dealing with inventions made by university faculty has been systematically dismantled over three decades in favor of institutionally self-serving patent administration, it is difficult to see a road back to pre-Bayh-Dole management. … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, History, Policy
Tagged Bayh-Dole, new way forward, policy wall., Research Corporation, technology transfer
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University Invention Management Policy Drift
In the olden days, when at least this part of the university world had not become captivated by a misrepresented Bayh-Dole Act, faculty were often expected to negotiate the IP provisions of sponsored research agreements, which often took on the … Continue reading