Should Academic Research Be a Marketable Product?

Here is an interesting piece discussing “Cornell Tech”, a new school that Cornell University is opening to hopefully expand New York’s tech sector. The school will take an equity stake in each company developed through their university instead of licensing rights to patents. Is this a better or worse approach to fostering innovation?

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/02/cornell-tech-universities-profit-from-student-research.html

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