Carey Goldberg on Universities and commericalization of research

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/040699sci-scientific-exchanges.html

April 6, 1999
Urging a Freer Flow of Scientific Ideas
By CAREY GOLDBERG

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In the old, cold-war days, when university
scientists gathered together, they would turn to complaining about how
secrecy strictures sometimes kept them from sharing their work, they
usually meant pesky national security restrictions. 

These days, they tend to mention nondisclosure agreements, worldwide
patent rights, royalty streams, intellectual property fights -- in a
word, money. And they talk about all the commercial hindrances to open
science carried by the powerful wave of private capital that has been
washing into the country's research universities in recent years. 

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-- 
James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
I can be reached at love@cptech.org, by telephone 202.387.8030,
by fax at 202.234.5176. CPT web page is http://www.cptech.org