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Nature 437, 948-949 (13 October 2005) | doi:10.1038/437948a; Published online 12 October 2005
The technology trap
Virginia Gewin
Abstract
America's widely-admired system for transferring ideas from the lab to the marketplace is showing signs of distress. Virginia Gewin reports.
For years, the US university innovation machine has been the envy of the world. The system — which gives universities the patent rights to technologies and lets them exploit these rights pretty much as they see fit — is generally credited with nurturing Silicon Valley and building the powerful US biotechnology industry.
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