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Intellectual property is not for sale

If we think about it, even when the business does not govern us, scholars used to share knowledge, published studies, research and documentation to ensure that all were found to remedy the most serious diseases.
This has allowed humanity to treat and often fatal to eradicate disease at the time.
For those who do real science that is the classic method, which has always used.
Since research also has become a business, the circulation of knowledge and results of scientific studies has failed to nearly disappear.
While it is true that there are still "issues" is equally true that today is possible to patent the chemical composition of a drug.
in this area is very nice read on the choice made by the University of Glasgow .

Eliminate barriers that impede the free flow of ideas and knowledge can bring great added value to the economy and have beneficial effects on the entire fabric of society that revolves around a research institution.

This is what it says on the University website. The rector
Anton Muscatello and the Director of the Committee on technology strategies Iain Gray explained:

"One of the key missions of the university is the creation, advancement and sharing of knowledge. Our goal is to demonstrate the relevance, importance and impact of research is carried out in Glasgow and help UK companies to maximize their international competitiveness. "

"to license the technology in the UK can be a laborious process, which may inhibit the sharing of intellectual property rights between universities and companies. This move will help create better and longer lasting relationship between the world of business and research. "

According to Professor Miles Padgett, head of research group that collaborates with the company, "as academics we have an obligation to promote the transfer of our technology in the real world. We are privileged to be funded with public money to carry out work that we love, and this is a way to repay. " Some aspects of the technology developed by Padgett and colleagues, will remain patent.

The idea behind "Easy Access IP, supported by the Research Council UK, has been greeted with enthusiasm by the business community, especially small and medium-sized enterprises see in it the possibility to have access to technologies before they foreclosed.