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Who Gets Intellectual Property Rights? Everyone
Earlier this week (see story "U.S. Universities Loosen Grip On Tech Rights To Keep Vendor Grants From Going Overseas"), four tech vendors (Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Intel) and seven research universities (Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford, University of California, University of Illinois, and University of Texas) agreed to a set of principles to guide collaborative IT research funded by the industry and conducted by university researchers. Simply, the knowledge generated would be made available to all. This Open Collaboration Principles, brokered by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation are a good first step that should hasten to market ideas created in university labs. |
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