Comment by gruez
3 days ago
>There should be a method + requirement to pay royalties back to public funding for basic research,
You mean the patent system? The university of california holds patents on CRISPR, for instance.
3 days ago
>There should be a method + requirement to pay royalties back to public funding for basic research,
You mean the patent system? The university of california holds patents on CRISPR, for instance.
CRISPR was obviously commercializable, most academic research is quite a bit further from commercialization and some tiny portion ends up being extremely valuable way downstream nonetheless.