University ownership decks standards development and research collaboration, which massively disrupts tech innovation throughout the economy

[Gerald, “Inventors would own more, were it not for noncompliant Bayh-Dole practice,” Research Enterprise, 3/10/23, https://researchenterprise.org/2023/03/10/inventors-would-own-more-were-it-not-for-noncompliant-bayh-dole-practice/, accessed 7/17/24, GDI-JCR]

University ownership is a black hole. The black hole. What’s owned by a university will be used by no one. That’s almost generally true. If a university owns, and insists on trying to find an exclusive licensee, then what are all the other companies to do who don’t need or want exclusivity, or don’t expect to be the exclusive licensee? They will have to design around, ignore, obsolesce, obtain patents that disrupt lines of development or application, and generally undermine that exclusive position to the extent that it represents a threat to competition. You see it, don’t you? An exclusive licensing premise drives everyone else away from university collaboration, away from the inventions a university owns. Makes university research even less relevant to industry, prevents platform and standards development, disrupts early adopters, denies graduating students opportunities to work in industry settings (only at the company, if ever, that gets an exclusive license) with what they have learned in their university research. Out of the blue and into the black. My my, hey, hey.