Bayhing for blood or Doling out cash?

摘要

Everyone agrees the reform had the no-blest of intentions; yet some now regard it as an assault on the values of acade-mia. A quarter of a century ago this month, America passed the Bayh-Dole act, named after its sponsors, Birch Bayh and Bob Dole, both then members of America's Senate. It was billed as a minor legal tweak—encouraging universities to patent and license the results of federally funded research-but it has had huge effects, both good and ill. It is credited by some with helping pull America out of its economic doldrums by pushing technologies quickly into the hands of industry. In so doing, others complain, it has blurred the. line between education and commerce.