The Ecosystem: Italy must live a little longer with professor's privilege | Science
Italy is about to end a 20-year experiment with ‘professor’s privilege’, a rule that gives academics rather than universities ownership of any patents they create. While the rule is very rarely followed, the reform is an opportunity to modernise and streamline technology transfer in the country’s universities. If, that is, the incoming Italian government decides to pick up an initiative begun by its predecessor.
Source: sciencebusiness.net