The Kauffman Foundation recently proposed that researchers be given the freedom to look beyond their own university to seek the most qualified agent to help shepherd their innovation to public utilization.
To accomplish this initiative, the Department of Commerce can instruct federal granting agencies to stipulate, as a condition of federal grant awards, that universities must accommodate a principal investigators' reasonable request to employ the best qualified technology transfer agent to act as a trustee of their intellectual property.
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