Marc Andelman wrote:
. The original post referred to a research
> article in May 1 science about univeristy patents .
> This will seriously impact the job market for scientists.
> That is on topic to every newsgroup,
> Marc Andelman
Marc, I haven't seen the 5/1/ issue yet but there was another essay on the
tech transfer/patent policy in the 3/6 issue of SCiENCE that you should have
read and commented on. the tone of the piece is positive, somaybe you
missed. one point was made about the bayh/dole act which is the beginnings of
the university patenting the you despise, may be tangentially responsible
for over 200,000 jobs in the past 15 years. Most are from start-ups that
emerged after the inventors left the university where most of the initial
R&D is done. from this persons perspective the patent arrangemnet that
the universitys have embarked on will be a good thing as it has been a
good thing.
markH
