IP free to a good home

"UNSW is going to give access to intellectual property away. The Australian has been on this story for a week and rightly so because this is a big deal for the way universities can work with entrepreneurs and perhaps become part of a trend towards open access of research. This is not about beating up the journals although you have to wonder whether they have rather had it all their own way for a while, charging biggish bucks for reports of research they acquire pretty much for free. Rather, it is about the way entrepreneurs don’t know how to find academic research and can’t afford to pay for articles in publishers’ databases where there is so much stuff to sort through...."