Question

You are a PhD student and your supervisor Prof. Harry, has recently published the results of his publicly funded research project with the intention to commercialize his discovery. What are your views about university professors that use public funding to create for-profit solo ventures?

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

It is right for university lecturers to do so, since they are not breaking any law or regulations, from my own point of view. You said that we should assume that the said lecturer, Professor Harry is my supervisor and he just published the results of is research- his own research, the research belongs to him, the research is his intellectual property and he should have the right to sell or not to sell.

Let us consider the Bayh-Dole Act, which allowed universities to keep and profit from the patents their students and researchers developed on campus using federal funds.

So, if this is allowed, professors should also be able to commercialize their research(es).