We meet all 3 by strengthening the public’s rightful ownership of inventions they paid for. 1AC McCann.

However, any intellectual property that results from publicly funded research does not belong to the public, who paid for it, but instead is available for the private sector to enclose and profit from. Indeed, the state does not recoup anything directly for that investment. The state is left to cross its fingers and hope that it receives a satisfactory return on its investment in R&D through economic growth, the creation of new jobs and the corporate and private tax that this leads to. However, what historically may have been true is today highly contested. Many companies are very good at minimising their local tax bills by creatively structuring their businesses while the innovative new companies, especially the tech-based ones, do not generally create mass employment opportunities. We contend that this needs to change, with the public sector taking more direct ownership of the resulting IP in order to share more broadly in the rewards, rather than just the risks.