Jim Hardy

are you talking about reversing Bayh-Dole? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... - Jean-Claude Bradley

"If we want to focus on actually helping the economy, investing in basic research will do very little." -- I would argue that this is very wrong, in the long term, but appears correct if one takes a short term view. - Bill Hooker

@Jim: what would you suggest for projects like the one I work on, funded partly by private money and partly by NIH? - Bill Hooker

So the thesis in the quoted article is that product development would go faster, not through more R&D, but through more support of commercialization of our current knowledge. I like that idea, but I don't think university tech transfer is a totally broken institution. - Mr. Gunn

Not totally broken, but it's certainly a model from a different era, and the UC system is a little different from others - Deepak

Most university tech transfer is fairly broken. One positive thing is that the UK government seems to be getting this general argument - that the most effective way of increasing enconomic impact of publically funded research is through making it available - not through patenting. But we still need a credible system for that encourages private investment through some sort of right to exploit and I can't really get my head around what such a thing would look like - Cameron Neylon

@JCBradley Exactly. I've been wondering what legislation this concept would effect. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll talk to my patent attorney, kindergarten buddy about it (He's in Philly & does a lot of patent work for Drexel BTW) - Jim Hardy

@Bill I would suggest that would go under a "joint inventorship" arrangement, which means the private group would own 1/2 and the rest is public domain. That's why I am thinking that places with a lot of private, endowment money would need to be specific in terms of what research they are funding with private money. I don't have the answer. Like Cameron, I can't get his big bald head around exactly what this would look like, but it's fun thinking about the possibilities. - Jim Hardy

It means I haven't collected a paycheck in 24 months:-) Jim H - Jim Hardy

Jim and I collaborated on a project, initiated by Attila. Might be worth picking back up sometime, too, when I've got more resources to devote to it. - Mr. Gunn

Gundy, my "lab" is in shambles at the moment. Expectorating I'll be back up and running on the secret project by mid December. I'll have a couple interns from local college in late January. Need to get back to dental pulp SC extractions. - Jim Hardy

And Nixon was not a crook, either. - Bill Hooker

I did not have "sexual relations" with that woman.... B Clinton. - Jim Hardy