Re:University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon
by kymchiho on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @04:44PM
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Huge incentive. More time to focus on the idea, less time spend on how to protect it.
Re:University of Waterloo Students Win Facebook's Hackathon
by srlake on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @05:40PM
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and less worries from investors if you are commercializing something based off of work done in university. No worry that in a couple years when things are taking off the university is going to come back looking for their cut.
Undergraduate students also own all of their own IP. If you want to commercialize something you've worked on in school, you don't even need to deal with a tech transfer office: you just do it.