Category Archives: Projects

Intermittency

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

In The Survival Game, David Barash discusses the prisoner’s dilemma as a instance of where the payoff for defecting on collaborators is better than playing nice. When such situations repeat, there are huge problems for collaborators in responding to attempts … Continue reading →

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DIWO

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

Check out biocurious.org for an interesting take on the “do it with others” (DIWO) effort to extend co-working to scientific research. Here’s the good comment on paper credentials. “The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.” In a … Continue reading →

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Lab Budgets

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

A post over on Techno-L caught my eye. It asked if anyone had dealt with cost recovery for business and lab costs in dealing with licensing income. A number of responses lay out the party line on what patent licensing … Continue reading →

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Don't Be a Title-Retentive Bureauklept

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Gerald Barnett

I’ve written a bunch on this topic. Here’s a shorter restatement of the previous posts. Patent rights under Bayh-Dole do not vest outright with the university, but rather with inventors as rights in personal property. Title to inventions in Bayh-Dole … Continue reading →

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Solheim Lab Microwave Kiln Micro-donation Project

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Gerald Barnett

As part of RTEI’s efforts to promote new forms of inquiry such as research-based art, we have been working with the Solheim Lab at the University of Washington. The lab has a blog for their open 3d printing initiative, which … Continue reading →

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An Example

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Gerald Barnett

Here’s an example of a points of engagement analysis. This is something that I worked up some time ago. Consider a university as a set of nested administrative units: Central — Senior Administrators Colleges — Deans Departments — Chairs Labs– … Continue reading →

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Points of Engagement

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Gerald Barnett

In Culture and Prosperity, John Kay observes that “we work in organizations, earn as individuals, and consume as households.” A similar observation can be made of university research–faculty work in a university context, as principal investigators take on research with … Continue reading →

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