It will drive growth, foster innovation and usher in a new era of academic discovery and collaboration.
Giving people the right to roam freely over publicly funded research will usher in a new era of academic discovery and collaboration, and will put the UK at the forefront of open research.
"Giving people the right to roam freely over publicly funded research will usher in a new era of academic discovery and collaboration, and will put the UK at the very forefront of open research," Willetts writes in the Guardian.
The digital evolution of the security sector plays to California's strengths: a tradition of scientific excellence in its universities and the ability to turn academic discovery into commercial achievement.
Looking to turn your academic discovery into a commercially successful product or technology?
It calls to mind another great academic discovery, this one dating to 1980, that small stocks beat big stocks.
The most important aspect of Adam's column, though, is his eventual illumination of technology transfer as the bridge between an academic discovery and a product that benefits the public.
The United States appears to present one successful model of a fluid industry-academic interface, wherein an academic discovery can be leveraged to launch a commercial product – the earliest such example in biotechnology being Genentech which pioneered the industry through the commercial application of recombinant DNA techniques [ 15].
And fewer academic discoveries spawn businesses.
Spinning academic discoveries into commercial riches, however, turned out to be a slow, uncertain process.
In 1980, it passed the Bayh-Dole Act, a law designed to speed up the commercialization of academic discoveries.
