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Category Archives: Innovation
Patent Abolition
John Gruber at Daring Fireball draws attention to an article in the The Atlantic by Jordan Weissmann who reports on a paper from the Federal Reserve by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine arguing for the abolition of patents. The … Continue reading
Freedom to Innovate
When the discussion of “free agency” comes up in technology transfer, it is easy to get diverted into rather narrow formulations. In previous essays, I’ve pointed out that inventor ownership is the default in US patent law, and it takes … Continue reading
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Release the Bugaboos!
Let’s put some context around the idea of “free agency.” AUTM clearly hates it, and so do Scott Shane and Joe Allan. But what is it, exactly, that they hate? I cannot get into their minds–and of course, it’s clear … Continue reading
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Innovating in the infrastructure
Here is an interesting take on innovation. Bill Frezza argues that the STEM infrastructure is not itself practicing uniformly the best STEM. For biotech, Frezza argues there’s still room for innovation by upgrading to the tech that’s current in other … Continue reading
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The Plutonomy
Chris Newfield, writing in his occasional blog on the woes of the middle class, discusses innovation in a list of the “core concepts of the current system” in the US (where Right/Radical is somewhat equivalent to “Republican” and Conservative means … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Policy
Tagged freedom to invent, Newfield, plutonomy, technology transfer
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A case for freedom
Let’s talk about “free agency”. Institutions hate it, players love it. Fans, they are not sure. When it comes to university innovation, however, we need to work through a number of issues. Let’s start with a few considerations. Universities have … Continue reading
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AUTM, the clueless inventor-loathing organization
. . . AUTM, of course, is already opposed, using their usual argument that everyone else is a stupid idiot and only AUTM has the intellectual capacity to navigate such “incredibly complex and nuanced matter.” {/vent} AUTM is the organization, … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Innovation, Policy, Technology Transfer
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Reef or Trench? University research and open access to results
There is a petition on-line asking the President to require the posting of “published results” of federally funded research on-line for public access. A story about it is here. The effort is led by John Wilbanks, who previously led Science … Continue reading
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A serious flaw in a paper about a serious flaw in Bayh-Dole that isn’t a flaw
A recent paper argues that there’s a hole in Bayh-Dole’s treatment of assignments. I thought that for a while, but then I went and read the law and the implementing regulations and realized that there was no hole. In Stanford … Continue reading
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The Root of the Problem
In the current Businessweek there’s a short interview by Tom Keen with John Taft about the idea of stewardship in the banking industry. The parallels with university IP are striking: [T]he leaders of our financial institutions lost touch with their … Continue reading
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