Mike Palij wrote:
> One phrase in the article that caught my eye was " 'Blue sky'
> research" which is described as "the kind of basic experimentation
> that leads to a greater understanding of how the world works".
> I must not have gotten the memo saying that we would now
> refer to basic resear
There is an interesting article in today's Sunday NY Times on
the effects of the Bayh-Dole Law aka the University Small
Business Patent Procedures Act which made it easier for
universities to patent and licence the results of federally
funded research. This allowed both the individual researcher
