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Category Archives: Social Science
Compulsory Monopolicy
I was having some fun with that last post. Part of the purpose is to tweak the noses of some folks who I hear had a good time trashing this blog at their recent organizational meet-up. Well, now. Good fun … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, IP, Social Science, Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer
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Live new or die
There are ways of thinking about ownership that make it sound perfectly normal for universities to own inventions made in research programs and to assign administrators the task of managing these, and any patents that issue on them. The further … Continue reading
Posted in IP, Social Science, Technology Transfer
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The groundwork for university research innovation
We helped work on an op/ed piece on the problems presented if Bayh-Dole becomes a vesting statute. Today IP Watchdog published it on their website. Fundamental university research innovation values are vision, choice, respect, and mutual agreement–not money, monoculture, compulsion, … Continue reading
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Charter Innovation
I have been working for the past few months on the idea of charter innovation. Much of this has been in connection with considering innovation in municipal technology–stuff like water systems, communications, cable, energy, and transportation. This sort of technology … Continue reading
Posted in Social Science
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Rising Conflation
It would appear that many university patent administrators conflate electing to retain title with having title. They want to do this. They think this is a good thing. Bayh-Dole makes no express transfer of title from inventors to the employing … Continue reading
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In Defense of Inventor Liberty
University patent administrators are proposing a distorted reading of federal regulations in an effort to ensure that you never own your own inventions, even when you make them on your own time, outside of the use of university facilities. They think it makes … Continue reading
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Thanksgiving
With this holiday in America being a time for giving thanks after the harvest and for the establishment of a constitutional government devoted to safety and happiness, making it a truly economic celebration built on a recognition of the good … Continue reading
Posted in History, Social Science, Technology Transfer
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Opening up technology transfer
Open innovation presents challenges to conventional forms of university technology transfer, even as the conventional forms are a start at open innovation. Continue reading
Posted in Commons, IP, Social Science
Tagged command and control, offer and response, open innovation
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We have questions
When we interpret Bayh-Dole as a social text, we get beyond the immediate claims and into a territory that tests our competence. Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, IP, Literature, Social Science, Technology Transfer
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Slumming and unslumming
I have been reading Jane Jacob’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities. I find myself taken with her account of the Blighted Dullness of orderly “garden city” planners. Jacobs argues that city streets become vital productive places when … Continue reading
Posted in Social Science, Technology Transfer
Tagged Jane Jacobs, slumlord
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