Marc Andelman wrote:
>> Editorial on academic patenting
> in Science May 1 1998 page 698
> Titled "Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in
> Biomedical Research"
>> Science Magazine has had some incredible editorials a cut
> far and above the run of the mill science journalism.
>> This particular editorial highlights how government encouraged
> university patenting of taxpayer funded work is creating
> intellectual property gridlock. Hoards of interlocking
> nusciance patents governed by university bureaucrats will prevent
> utlization of technology,and ultimately, destroy the private market
> for science professionals by making R&D unprofitable. R&D will
> be plain impossible due to this gridlock. Nothing but the
> current wasteland of academic jobs will remain.
Then you'd best recognize that this trend originates with the government
'downsizing' programs implimented when the right-wing took over. Their
philosophy is that public universities will be privatized and can earn
their own way or go under. Universities are responding in the only way
they can - by becoming businesses instead of educational institutions.
You and a number of others haven't got the sense to realize that you
have a noose around your neck because you put it there, and it is only
being drawn tight because you're yanking on it with your right hand.
>> Biosource is the oldest recruitment firm in the biotechnology
> industry. We have been warning of this for years. It is nice to
> finally see some lip service from the mainstream science press.
>
Recruitment industries, like any other, look out only for their profit
margins. Anyone who takes industry babble as an insightful commentary
on national policy deserves what they get.
M.
