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Public Research and Private Development: Patents and Technology Transfer in Government-Sponsored Research

1996; University of Virginia; Volume: 82; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1073686

1942-9967

Rebecca S. Eisenberg,

Innovation Policy and R&D

in this new vision, public ownership of research results was equivalent to "dead-hand" control,' and the public domain was a treacherous quicksand pit in which discoveries sink beyond reach of the private sector.If the results of federally-sponsored research were to be rescued from oblivion and successfully developed into commercial products, they would have to be patented and offered up for private appropriation.This new strategy was touted as serving a number of converging goals.It would ensure effective transfer and commercial development of discoveries that would otherwise languish in government and university archives.It would reinvigorate U.S. industry by giving it a fresh infusion of new ideas that would en-721 (originally codified as amended at 15 U.