ScienceMag: Indian Government Hopes Bill Will Stimulate Innovation http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-39227/sciencemag:indian-government-hopes-bill-will-stimulate-innovation Posts in the discussion thread "ScienceMag: Indian Government Hopes Bill Will Stimulate Innovation" - Science Magazine reports that "the Indian government is preparing to introduce legislation that it hopes will reverse the traditional hands-off attitude at most Indian universities toward commercializing the results of basic research". http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-39227#post-101541 Re: Science: Indian Government Hopes Bill Will Stimulate Innovation http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-39227/sciencemag:indian-government-hopes-bill-will-stimulate-innovation#post-101541 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:45:40 +0000 ggiedke 32664 I forgot to add, that the bill is planned to be introduced this spring and apparently it "is expected to win swift passage".

]]> http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-39227#post-101540 ScienceMag: Indian Government Hopes Bill Will Stimulate Innovation http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-39227/sciencemag:indian-government-hopes-bill-will-stimulate-innovation#post-101540 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:34:20 +0000 ggiedke 32664 The draft bill would direct "institutions to report patentable discoveries to the funding agency as soon as they come to light and to file patent applications within a year" and otherwise would have them "forfeit their intellectual-property rights to the agency that funded the research".

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/319/5863/556a

I find not only the proposed law and the reasoning behind it worrying, but also the very uncritical way it is reported in Science. There seems to be no questioning of the equation "patents = innovation".

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