FEATURE
U.S. Losing High-Tech Manufacturing Jobs to Asia
January 18, 2012 | Washington Post
The United States lost more than a quarter of its high-tech manufacturing jobs during the past decade as U.S.-based multinational companies placed a growing percentage of their research-and-development operations overseas, the National Science Board reported Tuesday. The report comes as the Obama administration is seeking to make U.S. manufacturing more competitive through engineering and innovation.
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Venture Capitalists Loosen Wallets
January 21, 2012 | Portfolio.Com
Venture capital investment increased by double digits in 2011, making last year the biggest in a decade for money flowing to Internet companies.
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‘Innovation Advisers’ Chosen for Ideas to Improve Health Care, Cut Costs
January 22, 2012 | Washington Post
Selected health experts are among the first 73 “innovation advisers” chosen by federal health officials this month to experiment with ways to provide better health care and reduce costs. Funded with $6 million from the health-care overhaul act, the initiative is one of the first programs of the new Innovation Center at the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, known as CMS.
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Supreme Court OKs Public Domain Works Being Copyrighted
January 20, 2012 | IP Watchdog
The US Supreme Court has issued, what IP Watchdog President Gene Quinn calls, "a truly regrettable decision" in the much anticipated copyright case Golan v. Holder. At issue: whether Congress has the authority to restore copyrights in works that were in the public domain, or in other words whether Congress has authority to strip works from the public domain and grant copyright protection. Quinn calls it "one of the more intellectual dishonest decisions I have ever read."
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University Technology Transfer and Unintended Consequences
January 18, 2012
It is all too easy to get swept up into the rhetoric on how the Bayh-Dole Act allows universities to “benefit” financially by licensing patents arising from federally sponsored research. From that basic premise arises a series of decisions and actions with consequences, both intentional and unintentional. As the Wikipedia article summarizes the concept, unintended consequences can be roughly grouped into three types:
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