Universities’ Intellectual Property Stance Criticized

by E Wayne Ross on April 22, 2008

Inside Higher Ed: Universities’ Intellectual Property Stance Criticized

Getting medicines to people who need them in developing countries is a top goal of public health experts worldwide, many of whom note that people are dying all the time of diseases for which treatments exist. Universities, whose scientists’ research is crucial to many of those drugs and which enjoy a share of royalties on some of those drugs, are finding themselves drawn into a debate that has as much to do with the economics of the pharmaceutical industry as anything that takes place in a laboratory.

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