Public Research for Private Gain | Feature | Oakland, Berkeley & Bay Area News & Arts Coverage

peter.suber's bookmarks 2013-06-27

Summary:

"In a unanimous vote last month, the Regents of the University of California created a corporate entity that, if spread to all UC campuses as some regents envision, promises to further privatize scientific research produced by taxpayer-funded laboratories. The entity, named Newco for the time being, also would block a substantial amount of UC research from being accessible to the public, and could reap big profits for corporations and investors that have ties to the well-connected businesspeople who will manage it....[U]nder Newco, decisions about the fate of academic research will be taken away from university employees and faculty, and put in the hands of a powerful board of businesspeople who will be separate from the university. This nonprofit board will decide which UC inventions to patent and how to structure licensing deals with private industry. It also will have control over how to spend public funds on these activities....UC oversight of Newco may be less than robust. Several regents, in fact, objected to creating an oversight committee that would keep tabs on the new entity...."

Link:

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/public-research-for-private-gain/Content?oid=3619535&showFullText=true

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.negative oa.copyright oa.patents oa.tech_transfer oa.u.california oa.usa.ca

Date tagged:

06/27/2013, 11:27

Date published:

06/27/2013, 10:57