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How Not to Cut a Public University Budget

The Portland (Maine) Press-Herald’s November 6 article about the probable loss of NASA research grants that support the work of four students is heart-breaking. If this seems excessive, consider what that tells us about the dismal unraveling of USM under its troubled leadership of the past few years. As one who spent much of her […]

November 24, 2014 – 11:00 am | By Sylvia Kraemer | Posted in Colleges and Universities, Education | Tagged federal procurements, Human Values, intellectual capital, Measure to Manage, Publicly Funded Research, Quantitative Values, University of Southern Maine | Comments (0)

The New Enclosure (Part II)

The notion that the things we create belong to us is not new; it dates back at least to 560, when Ireland’s King Diarrmait ruled against the monk Colmcille, who had secretly copied his mentor Finnian’s psalter. (Legend records Diarmait’s judgment as “To every cow belongs her calf, therefore to every book belongs its copy.”) […]

July 14, 2014 – 4:42 pm | By Sylvia Kraemer | Posted in Environmental Policy, Intellectual Property, Open Systems, Science and Engineering in the Law, Science and Policy, Technology in US Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged Atomic Energy Commission, Bayh-Dole, Daniel S. Greenberg, Department of Defense, EPA standards, federal procurements, federal R&D, FOIA, Forsham v. Harris, Freedom of Information Act, Human Genome Project, intellectual capital, Justice John McLean, King Diarrmait, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Institutes of Health, Office of Management and Budget, patent licenses, patent royalties, patents, President Bill Clinton, President Kennedy, President Truman, Prime Minister Tony Blair, privatization, proprietary claims, public commons, public sphere, Publicly Funded Research, Ronald Reagan, Shelby Amendment, Wheaton v. Peters | Comments (0)

The New Enclosure (Part III)

Discussions of patent policy in the United States and elsewhere often overlook the fact that the original intent of issuing patents (not to be confused with sovereign-granted commercial privileges) was to encourage the disclosure and spread of novel devices to stimulate manufacturing and trade. The earliest patents (such as those awarded by the Republic […]

July 14, 2014 – 4:41 pm | By Sylvia Kraemer | Posted in Current History, Intellectual Property, Open Systems, Science and Engineering in the Law, Science and Policy, Technology in US Politics | Tagged Atomic Energy Commission, Bayh-Dole, Daniel S. Greenberg, Department of Defense, EPA standards, federal procurements, federal R&D, FOIA, Forsham v. Harris, Freedom of Information Act, Human Genome Project, intellectual capital, Justice John McLean, King Diarrmait, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Institutes of Health, Office of Management and Budget, patent licenses, patents, President Bill Clinton, President Kennedy, President Truman, Prime Minister Tony Blair, privatization, proprietary claims, public commons, public sphere, Publicly Funded Research, Ronald Reagan, Shelby Amendment, Wheaton v. Peters | Comments (0)

Why Dieting is Hard for Uncle Sam

Whether devout or passionate, “severe” conservatives (as republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney styled himself), assert a belief that the private sector should command all economic activity, while the public sector is reduced to as close to nothing as possible. Here is Mr. Romney on his rival Rick Santorum: “Sen. Santorum is a nice guy, but […]

April 11, 2012 – 2:55 pm | By Sylvia Kraemer | Posted in Current History, History of Ideas, Politics | Tagged California, federal defecit, federal grants and contracts, federal procurements, Florida, Georgia, Iron Triangle, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, private sector, public sector, South Carolina, taxes, Tea Party, Tennessee, Texas, US Congress | Comments (1)