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Who Owns Academic Inventions? Reassessing the Question of Ownership in the era of University Technology Transfer

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dc.contributor.author Liu, Tina
dc.date.accessioned 2011-03-17T00:21:24Z
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-25T06:32:30Z
dc.date.available 2011-03-17T00:21:24Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-25T06:32:30Z
dc.date.copyright 2010
dc.date.issued 2010
dc.identifier.uri https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/23435
dc.description.abstract University technology transfer is a global phenomenon. The goal of technology transfer is to bring "under-utilised; under-developed; under-commercialised" academic research into the private sector to be developed into socially beneficial products. The economic rationale is that greater interaction between public research and private industries will bring greater return for publicly supported research and development. Accordingly, national innovation policies encourage universities to approach academic research with an "entrepreneurial" attitude. This means that the direction of research has shifted from curiosity-driven to commercial applications. Academic research is the subject of exclusive intellectual property rights, and the commercially valuable is exploited in the marketplace. Technology transfer is the impetus for "entrepreneurial" research, and the re-definition of the university ... The author takes the overall position that an academic can be employed to invent in certain circumstances; in particular where the university research environment is heavily orientated towards facilitating technology transfer... en_NZ
dc.format pdf en_NZ
dc.language en_NZ
dc.language.iso en_NZ
dc.publisher Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington en_NZ
dc.subject Entrepreneurship en_NZ
dc.subject Academic research en_NZ
dc.subject Commercial research en_NZ
dc.title Who Owns Academic Inventions? Reassessing the Question of Ownership in the era of University Technology Transfer en_NZ
dc.type Text en_NZ
vuwschema.contributor.unit School of Law en_NZ
vuwschema.subject.marsden 390104 Commercial and Contract Law en_NZ
vuwschema.subject.marsden 390114 Intellectual Property en_NZ
vuwschema.type.vuw Bachelors Research Paper or Project en_NZ
thesis.degree.discipline Law en_NZ
thesis.degree.grantor Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington en_NZ
thesis.degree.name Bachelor of Laws with Honours en_NZ


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