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The Bayh-Dole Act, enacted in 1980, fundamentally reshaped the landscape of federally funded research in the United States. It enabled universities, small businesses, and non-profit organizations to retain ownership of inventions developed under government contracts, thereby encouraging the commercialization of innovations. By encouraging greater collaboration between academia and industry, the Act shifted the focus towards applied research with commercial potential, altering the traditional model of basic research.
The Bayh-Dole Act, enacted in 1980, fundamentally reshaped the landscape of federally funded research in the United States. It enabled universities, small businesses, and non-profit organizations to retain ownership of inventions developed under government contracts, thereby encouraging the commercialization of innovations. By encouraging greater collaboration between academia and industry, the Act shifted the focus towards applied research with commercial potential, altering the traditional model of basic research.
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''That changed with the '''Bayh-Dole Amendment in 1980''', because that said that instead of universities being the only thing that can pursue that which cannot be funded by the market, it said, and if you do do research that can be rewarded by the market, you can put in for the university to reap that reward. So suddenly, the universities abandoned their Blue Sky and started doing things that were translation oriented.''
- '''Eric Weinstein''' on [[Renewing our Belief in the Future of Humanity with Eric Weinstein (YouTube Content)]]
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==On X==
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=== 2010 ===
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|content=The [[Bayh-Dole Act (1980)|1980 Bayh-Dole act]] looked at the "public good" of basic research & said "Inexhaustible & Inexcludible is a head hurter."
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=== 2020 ===
 
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|content=@matt_gallegos [[Eilberg Amendment (1976)|Eilberg act in 1976]] was first. Then [[Bayh-Dole Act (1980)|Bayh-Dole]] undermined the Vannavar Bush [[Science, The Endless Frontier (1945)|endless frontier arrangment]].
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|content=“What happened in 1971-1973?” maybe the most underrated question of our time.
 
There are roughly two schools. The larger more prestigious school thinks it was about economics.
 
The smaller school thinks the economics were downstream of science and [[Embedded Growth Obligations]].
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|content=WTF Happened In 1971?
 
Very much understudied era in history. The fork in the road, when stagnation began to spread.
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
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|timestamp=4:02 PM · May 6, 2020
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|content=The larger school has the gold standard/Breton Woods, female entrants into the labor pool, Arab oil embargo, Watergate etc... on its side. If you want somewhere to start, start there.
 
My school simply says that it was destined to blow up & we just chose the path. A very bad one.
|timestamp=4:02 PM · May 6, 2020
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|content=Just Mikovits makes a compelling case against Bayh-Dole act accelerating the problem in 1980.
|timestamp=4:06 PM · May 6, 2020
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|timestamp=4:07 PM · May 6, 2020
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=== 2021 ===
 
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|content=A lot changed for reasons *other* than the [[Science, The Endless Frontier (1945)|"Endless Frontier"]].
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|content=@dvijmankad It's not that hard. The Manhattann project was filled with iconoclasts.
 
Also: Feynman's reception at Shelter Island after the war. Dyson's victory over Oppenheimer at the IAS. Watson vs Venter on the Genome. Smale on the beaches of Rio. Serge Lang at Yale. Schwinger's epigram.
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|content=All of that was from the Manhattan project into the present. Yes, big science changed things...but it was [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield]], [[Bayh-Dole Act (1980)|Dole-Bayh]], [[Eilberg Amendment (1976)|Eilberg]], [[IMMACT90]] etc that lost us the freedom of the individual inside the universities.
|timestamp=3:37 PM · Oct 17, 2021
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|timestamp=3:39 PM · Oct 17, 2021
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|content=@TuckerMax @danielsheehan45 The Degradations of the 2008 crisis followed by the Dear Colleague letter of R. Ali in 2011, [[IMMACT90]], [[Bayh-Dole Act (1980)|Bayh-Dole in 1980]], were specific worsenings of our corrupt picture of reality.
 
The Jenga tower was never the solid structure it was claimed to be. But it stood. It won’t now.
|timestamp=1:58 PM · Oct 19, 2021
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|content=You know we all want to be loved. And we all want money. And we all want status.
 
But nothing compares to physics. And I’ll believe the best of him until we talk because that is a path of hope. And he may have a genius plan. I just don’t happen to know it &amp; it’s taking too long.
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|content=I get it. But can we *actually* build something that does post-relativistic physics? Asking for some friends.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Tits
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|content=Am thinking of starting new university:</br>
Texas Institute of Technology & Science
|timestamp=6:20 AM · Oct 29, 2021
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|content=fuck... we could do so much more... merch. gagh. Suspect Musk is being ironic. It's that time of the evening when he spits out bs. But ugh, i feel this frustration re meaningful pursuits like actual physics. Why does no one care?
|timestamp=7:33 AM · Oct 29, 2021
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|content=No idea. But as brilliant &amp; rich as he is, we can’t afford to get sucked in.
 
I’m actually up for the dick jokes. What I’m not up for is the tease. He had the right idea (get off planet), the right resources, and the right background (physics). But it became just one more farce.
|timestamp=7:40 AM · Oct 29, 2021
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|content=In what way has it become a farce?
|timestamp=7:51 AM · Oct 29, 2021
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|content=@Burchoff @ellleighclarke The part of physics that might accomplish his stated dream is dying every month. Go to any physics department &amp; attend a high energy physics or particle theory talk. Maybe 1/10 is still about physics. He is burning time like crazy when he could just endow the field. Don’t ask me.
|timestamp=7:56 AM · Oct 29, 2021
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|content=i blame witten and greene for making string sexy... And then the academia industrial complex for creating the gamification of publishing.
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|content=@ellleighclarke @Burchoff Maxwell, [[Eilberg Amendment (1976)|Eilenberg]], [[Bayh-Dole Act (1980)|Bayh-Dole]], [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield]], [[IMMACT90|Immact90]], SSC cancellation, etc. We are down to embers. It’s not [[Ed Witten|Witten]] and [[Brian Greene|Greene]]. It was the lack of freedom to deviate from Witten and Company. To tell your failing elders that you won’t be signing on to their failed programs.
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|timestamp=8:08 AM · Oct 29, 2021
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=== 2023 ===
 
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|content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>bred. 🙏
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|content=We’ve been trying to destroy US scientists’ freedom &amp; their research universities for ~60 years.
 
[[Peer Review|Peer Review 1965]]</br>
[[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield Amendment 1969]]</br>
[[Eilberg Amendment (1976)|Eilberg Amendment 1976]]</br>
[[Bayh-Dole Act (1980)|Bayh-Dole Act 1980]]</br>
[[IMMACT90|IMMACT90 1990]]</br>
SSC Cancelation 1993</br>
ADEA Faculty Uncapping 1993</br>
Dear Colleague Letter 2011</br>
DEI 2017
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|content=When a successful polio vaccine candidate was introduced in 1953, it made its developer a minor celebrity.
 
In 1960, Time magazine’s “Man of the Year” was awarded to “US Scientists.”
 
What used to be people’s celebrity in the 1950s is seen by many as a villain today.
 
Why?
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|timestamp=8:41 PM · Jan 23, 2023
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|content=You are looking at domesticated Scientists that were bread over almost 60 years from Wild Type scientists.
 
It’s not that there is no connection. But the difference between a wolf &amp; a poodle can be significant. One is fiercely independent. One needs obedience to be fed regularly.
|timestamp=8:48 PM · Jan 23, 2023
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|content=And inside every domesticated animal lies an unkillable dream of being wild and free again. That’s why occasionally my dog brings me a squirrel or still pees on territory while on a leash.
 
Your real scientists want to hunt again. They need to be reintroduced into the wild. Now.
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|content=Here is the simple point:
 
You can have scientists you trust.
 
You can have scientists you control.
 
And you can pick only one of the above options.
 
You’re getting angry at wolves you bred into obedience to non-scientific masters who have no idea what they are doing. That’s why.
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=== 2025 ===
 
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|content=How about reaffirming the unsayable:
 
A) Research Universities are supposed to be dedicated to scholarship and discovery above all else. Not teaching. Not politics. Not incubating business spinoffs.
 
B) They are suppose to be exclusive. Not inclusive.
 
C) The professors are supposed to lead the university. Not the staff. Not the administrators.
 
D) [[The Precariat|Academics are not to be made precarious.]]
 
E) Even private elite universities are not really private. They are government funded to do the work that the market cannot.
 
F) The USG is in breach of the historical commitment to support blue sky science in US Universities.
 
G) Graduate students are workers disguised as students. Foreign students are a foreign workforce.
 
H) [[Peer Review|Peer review]] is astonishingly recent and doesn’t work.
 
I) There is a quasi military function to research universities. They are part of National Security. Patriotism matters.
 
J) Some fields do not deserve to be together on a level field. Biology and gender studies for example.
 
K) Some fields *may* now be too dangerous to be studied openly.  Parts of physics, number theory and
Machine learning leap to mind. This must be studied.
 
L) The AAU, [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|NSF]], [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)|NAS]] etc. have all conspired against the welfare of American scientists and their families. Scientists need to be in the rooms where their fates are determined.
 
M) The difference between a research university and a college takes place almost exclusively within three groups of people: Professors, Graduate Students, and PostDocs/Researchers/Visitors. It often takes place in the afternoons. In seminars. In Labs. Etc. If you aren’t part of that world you aren’t part of the University. You are working or studying in BigEd but not involved with the university itself.
 
N) The great man/woman theory is basically correct in academics. Individual academicians change the world.
 
O) The [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield amendment]], [[Bayh-Dole Act (1980)|Dole-Bayh]], [[Eilberg Amendment (1976)|Eilberg]], [[IMMACT90]] etc laws need to be undone. The damage has been incalculable.
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|content=Full page ad in today’s WSJ taken out by leaders at @VanderbiltU and @WashU:
 
Higher Education is at a Crossroads
 
To university leadership, Board members and alumni:
 
American higher education is at a crossroads. Ideological forces in and outside of campuses have pulled too many universities away from the core purpose, principles and values that made them America's great engines of learning, innovation and discovery, and the envy of the world.
 
It is imperative that universities reaffirm and protect these core principles, strengthen their compact with the American people, and build on their unmatched capacity for teaching and innovation. They must do so not only because universities provide education that is transformative and research that improves everyday life—but also because their work is vital to American prosperity, competitiveness and national security.
 
To this end, the leadership of Vanderbilt University and Washington University in St. Louis recently took action at the board level to affirm our commitment to three indispensable principles that have long guided us:
 
-Excellence in all aspects of our institutions' work, free of political litmus tests, grounded in a commitment to institutional neutrality in words and deeds;
 
-Academic freedom and freedom of expression, to ensure unfettered inquiry, perspectives drawn from a wide range of human experience, and dialogue and debate that are free from censorship and disruption; and
 
-An environment that fosters growth and development, including a commitment to minimizing financial and other barriers that impede students' access to our institutions or that hinder their academic success.
 
Learn about the Vanderbilt-WashU Statement of Principles and efforts to restore confidence in America's great universities at HigherEdStatementofPrinciples dot com
 
Bruce Evans</br>
Chairman, Board of Trust</br>
Vanderbilt University
 
Andrew Bursky</br>
Chair, Board of Trustees Washington University in St. Louis
 
Daniel Diermeier</br>
Chancellor</br>
Vanderbilt University
 
Andrew D. Martin</br>
Chancellor</br>
Washington University in St. Louis
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|timestamp=7:27 PM · Feb 26, 2025
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|content=I find myself in agreement with @realchrisrufo on this point.
 
I'll fill a bit in as well that doesn't seem to be well known.
 
Our private research universities are not actually purely private. They are designed to be both a cryptic soft extension of the state (e.g. national security, priming the prosperity pipeline with blue sky research, truth adjudication, etc.), which is also oppositely intended as an independent check on the state and state power in times of abuse as well. This tacit and quiet knowledge, which used to be held at the AAU and the relevant professors, has been mostly lost.
 
So 'overhead' or 'indirect costs' is not actually overhead at all. It is supposed to be cryptic state support based on research merit to avoid political pressure to fund 3rd tier universities at the same level as Princeton. So the whole system was designed back in the [[Science, The Endless Frontier (1945)|Vannevar Bush era]] but without leaving the esoteric knowledge with modern academicians.
 
It's a disaster. It was a quiet game which worked brilliantly to serve the nation and its population until lunatics started to get a foothold in the research universities.
 
This is why when you audit this stuff, you see waste. It wasn't ever intended to be what it appears to be: this was the USG paying to have a totally ELITE and EXCLUSIVE quasi-private, quasi-public resource. Think Manhattan project. Think The Jasons. Think winning.
 
And, despite my deep dislike of how @realchrisrufo has acted towards me, his point is spot on. If the elite U.S. universities are so confused as to think that they are truly 100% private and that they should be allowed to destroy their role of ELITE service to the nation which built them up with federal dollars, that is a moment to remind them of the [[Science, The Endless Frontier (1945)|"Endless Frontier"]] agreement.
 
First the USG welched on the agreement with the [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)|Mansfield Ammendment]] and [[Bayh-Dole Act (1980)|Dole Bayh]] and then [[IMMACT90]]. Then the universities welched with DEI.
 
BOTH parties need to get back to the quiet agreement, or the whole thing will just fall apart. And the US research achipeligo is a *MAJOR* part of american greatness which we seem to be about to destroy because we can't figure out how to do this.
 
[And for those of you who seem to believe that quiet and tacit agreements are always bad, so that the Manhattan Project should have been academic and totally open because 'Sunlight is always the best disinfectant!!', I highly encourage you to use the comment section to complain again about elitism, gatekeeping, Fauci, experts, science, government and credentials. I get it. You can't stop to listen...or think. I totally get you. Looking forward to your vitriol. Just make sure to remind me repeatedly that markets are always right, all tax is theft, DEI is poison, and that Trump and Elon know exactly what they are doing at all times.]
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|content=The Ivy League universities are in a bind: they want to collect billions in federal funds, while openly violating federal civil rights law. The president should drop the hammer—no DEI, or no federal dollars.
|timestamp=6:45 PM · Apr 14, 2025
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==See Also==
==See Also==
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* [[The Evolution of U.S. Science and Defense Research Policies]]
* [[The Evolution of U.S. Science and Defense Research Policies]]
* [[Eilberg Amendment (1976)]]
* [[Eilberg Amendment (1976)]]
* [[Mansfield Amendment 1969]]
* [[H-1B Visa]]
* [[Mansfield Amendment (1969)]]
* [[IMMACT90]]
* [[IMMACT90]]
* [[Science, The Endless Frontier]]
* [[Science, The Endless Frontier (1945)]]
* [[Science Since Babylon]]
* [[Science Since Babylon]]


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