Managing university intellectual property in the public interest / Committee on Management of University Intellectual Property: Lessons from a Generation of Experience, Research, and Dialogue ; Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy ; Committee on Science, Technology, and Law ; Policy and Global Affairs ; Stephen A. Merrill and Anne-Marie Mazza, editors ; National Research Council of the National Academies.

Thirty years ago federal policy underwent a major change through the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which fostered greater uniformity in the way research agencies treat inventions arising from the work they sponsor. Before the Act, if government agencies funded university research, the funding agency retain...

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