Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay

Re:Guidance to make federally funded research freely availab... by pksebben on Friday August 26, 2022 @04:41AM (#32604732)

Thanks for the well informed response! I had not yet heard of Bayh-Dole and you gave me some good googlin'.

In regards to your explanation in [2], that sucks - I kinda figured that's how things were but I sorta went around academia rather than through it so it's interesting to hear. Any hot ideas about how it could be fixed?

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Re:Guidance to make federally funded research freely availab... by logisticseh on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @03:02PM (#32666835)

> Any hot ideas about how it could be fixed?

For Computer Science:

1. replace the current academic funding model with pure fellowships. Each individual, from most junior to most senior, gets their own N year funding.

2. Each has a legal entity under which their IP lives and in which the government takes a small, fair, non-voting share.

3. Completely divorce this funding infrastructure from universities -- if someone wants to use part of their grant to pay for PhD courses/advising, great, but make it so that funding science is not contingent on that institutional apparatus.

For lab sciences things are more complicated.

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