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Patent or perish?

Patent or perish? EDITORIAL V ol. 1 No. 4 De cember 2002 www.nature.com/naturematerials Ask any materials researcher what makes a successful grant proposal, and they will no doubt tell you that it’s all in the applications. Over the past few years, government funding bodies have poured huge amounts of money into areas such as nanotechnology, bioinformatics and multifunctional materials. The status of these research areas as prime targets for government and industry funding rests in their perceived technological benefits. But government funding increasingly comes with strings attached — that is, a pressure on the universities to ensure that their research output is commercially exploited whenever possible. American universities have been busy commercializing their research since the 1980s, when the US Congress passed the Bayh–Dole act allowing them to patent state-funded research. The rest of the world has lagged behind, but European countries in particular are now making increasing efforts to encourage universities to gear their research towards economic goals. Both the European Community and the UK government have recently published reports aimed at creating an ‘intellectual property’ culture, in which everyone should be encouraged to think about the commercial value of their creative and scientific endeavours. This is of particular relevance to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Materials Springer Journals

Patent or perish?

Nature Materials , Volume 1 (4) – Dec 1, 2002
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Patent or perish?

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EDITORIAL V ol. 1 No. 4 De cember 2002 www.nature.com/naturematerials Ask any materials researcher what makes a successful grant proposal, and they will no doubt tell you that it’s all in the applications. Over the past few years, government funding bodies have poured huge amounts of money into areas such as nanotechnology, bioinformatics and multifunctional materials. The status of these research areas as prime targets for government and industry funding rests in their perceived...
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2002 by Nature Publishing Group
Subject
Materials Science; Materials Science, general; Optical and Electronic Materials; Biomaterials; Nanotechnology; Condensed Matter Physics
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1476-1122
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1476-4660
DOI
10.1038/nmat785
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EDITORIAL V ol. 1 No. 4 De cember 2002 www.nature.com/naturematerials Ask any materials researcher what makes a successful grant proposal, and they will no doubt tell you that it’s all in the applications. Over the past few years, government funding bodies have poured huge amounts of money into areas such as nanotechnology, bioinformatics and multifunctional materials. The status of these research areas as prime targets for government and industry funding rests in their perceived technological benefits. But government funding increasingly comes with strings attached — that is, a pressure on the universities to ensure that their research output is commercially exploited whenever possible. American universities have been busy commercializing their research since the 1980s, when the US Congress passed the Bayh–Dole act allowing them to patent state-funded research. The rest of the world has lagged behind, but European countries in particular are now making increasing efforts to encourage universities to gear their research towards economic goals. Both the European Community and the UK government have recently published reports aimed at creating an ‘intellectual property’ culture, in which everyone should be encouraged to think about the commercial value of their creative and scientific endeavours. This is of particular relevance to

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