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...practice is touted by advocates as a way to expedite the movement of important discoveries out of the academy and into mainstream usage—and to turn a profit for universities in the process. Tech transfer promises to bring in millions of dollars in royalties to the University and its professors—a total of nearly $20 million last year for Harvard alone...
Universities have long been permitted to utilize intellectual property of their own creation for profit. But the vast majority of university research is at least partially supported by federal funds, which has historically allowed the government to retain title to those discoveries...
...horrified to realize that my monthly stipend check is funded by weapons manufacturers. Why must we profit from violence, even as we pretend to reject...
...medicine. Leaving the U.N. out of the loop could have disastrous consequences for the future of the international community. While admittedly France and Russia have their own economic self-interest in mind concerning postwar Iraq, the same arguments can be hurled against the U.S., whose corporations stand to profit considerably from postwar oil production—not to mention the strategic interest the U.S. stands to gain in prying open the door to OPEC. It is at times like these, when discordant national interests butt heads, that the survival of the U.N. is most tenuous?...
...with the rest of the Jim Henson Company - while building Germany's EMTV empire, it must be "like a kind of torture to have to watch this show." Last week the Haffas were fined €1.4 million for misleading investors and inflating share prices with rosy €300 million profit forecasts while EMTV was actually headed for a €1.4 billion loss. Not a huge fine, but perhaps a huge precedent for the 2,000 EMTV shareholders now filing civil suits, says Theodor Baums, architect of the government's plans to make executives more accountable. "Germany's regulations are outdated...