tailieunhanh - Managing University Intellectual Property in the Public Interest

Discovery, learning, and societal engagement are mutually supportive core missions of the research university. Transfer of knowledge to those in society who can make use of it for the general good contributes to each of these missions. These transfers occur through publications, training and education of students, employment of graduates, conferences, consultations, and collaboration as well as by obtaining rights to inventions and discoveries that qualify for patent protection (intellectual property, or IP) and licensing them to private enterprises. All of these means of knowledge sharing have contributed to a long history of mutually beneficial relations among | MANAGING UNIVERSITY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST 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 THE NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington . THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS 500 Fifth Street . Washington DC 20001 NOTICE The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance. This study was supported by Contract Grant No. 30700699 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Contract Grant No. 9903375 between the National Academy of Sciences and The Robertson Foundation Contract Grant No. 07-90086-000-GEN between the National Academy of Sciences and the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation Contract Grant No. 20080270 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Contract Grant No. 1007160 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Contract Grant No. 2007129 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Doris Duke Charitable Fund The High Q Foundation Myelin Repair Foundation the FasterCures Center of the Milken Institute and an anonymous foundation. Any opinions findings conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author s and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided .