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Lakewood
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Cogent points all.....
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2/26/2013 1:22:46 PM
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As a tuition payer now shepherding another child through the college application process, one thing has become very clear: state or privately funded, all colleges and universities are engaged in a cutthroat competition for both academic (teaching and research) talent and highly qualified paying students every bit as aggressive as anything that goes on in the private sector. If a university can attract the kind of professor who also generates patents, then they are also attracting the kind of academic reputation that attracts more and better qualified applicants, thereby maximizing tuition revenues. If you want to handcuff your state colleges and universities by rigging the rules so that academic researchers can not benefit from patents they acquire, well, fine. But don't go thinking you can do this without affecting, in the long run, the quality of the researchers who come to your campus.
I'm not against a revenue-sharing rule in which the person who actually invented the patented device or process shares revenue with the institution, but across the country, a different competitive calculus will dictate what institutions and researchers can bargain for, institution by institution, researcher by researcher. Yes, exactly like a private business. Why not?
If UAB has a doctor on staff who is famous worldwide, do you insist that the doctor's salary be capped at modest levels regardless of how much value he adds to the University's reputation and ability to attract both patients and students? Just because it makes some low-achieving taxpayer all envious?
How about football coaches?
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