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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
What happens if a university or public health body finds a vaccine first, do they tend to freely share the info or do they usually make any money from it?
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I imagine the data is published into the "public domain", but since the university won't have the facilities to mass produce it, a private company could then manufacture it at profit. But since it is public domain, anyone can compete in manufacture.
That is what usually happens in public science. Although maybe there are special considerations for vaccine research.