Tech Transfer Roundup: Inside The Law That Transformed The Research Landscape

The Bayh-Dole act of 1980 facilitated deal-making between private-sector firms and research institutions, largely seeding the US biotech industry. Plus, an overview of the latest tech transfer deals.

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Technology transfer from universities and other non-profit research institutions to private sector firms is core to the modern biopharma industry, but before the enactment of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980, explained former Senate staffer Joe Allen, US companies had little interest in trying to build upon government-sponsored institutional research because of rules that hindered such efforts.

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