Emerging Academic Scientists' Exclusionary Encounters with Commercialization Law, Policy, and Practice

Authors

Matthew Herder, Dalhousie UniversityFollow

Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

6-20-2013

Abstract

Academic laboratories are increasingly sites of commercialization While empirical evidence about the impact of the emphasis placed upon commercialization by governments research funding agencies and research institutions and the attendant growth of commercialization activities in the academic sphere has been gradually accumulating much of this evidence is tied to established academic scientists Comparatively little empirical research has focused upon emerging academic scientists Therefore the purpose of this chapter is to identify a set of concerns flowing from emerging academic scientists' encounters with commercialization laws policies and practices The chapter proceeds in three parts In Part A I describe contextual changes related to commercialization in the academic realm as well as a range of commercialization activities that emerging scientists are increasingly apt to be exposed to as they pursue scientific careers In Part B I identify two "exclusionary encounters" that emerging scientists are likely to have with commercialization laws policies and practices These encounters pertain to 1 inventorship of patentable discoveries and 2 intellectual property ownership By way of brief conclusion in Part C I set out one hypothesis for future empirical inquiry

Comments

Research Papers, Working Papers, Conference Papers

Recommended Citation

Matthew Herder, “Emerging Academic Scientists' Exclusionary Encounters with Commercialization Law, Policy, and Practice” (2013) Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law Working Paper No 13.