One of the ways for a University to do better, maybe much better is to establish a culture of patenting their inventions. SIUC does a really poor job of this (check the SIUC ORDA website for examples of how bad it is). I have drafted a little plan to improve this situation -
1 - give the professors job credit equal to a publication in a major journal (or better) for a patient. Believe it or not this is not part of the SIU policy.
2 - hire a lawyer to do patients in house. Now you could say that we should kill all the lawyers and we don't need more SIU bureaucrats, but since they are spending more than one head count on patient fees every year anyway what the heck. Currently the limit on patients is 3 per year.
3 - monitor the people who are doing the patient work. You know, figure out best practices, monitor results, improve, standard management stuff.
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