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Old 06-07-2020, 13:02   #4417
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
It's a shame we can't exploit it to our financial advantage, after all, this will be done if another country/private company finds it first. This would help our finances too.

To counter the moral argument we could use some of the money to pay for supplying the third world, or even better, insist that any manufacturers supply the third world at no cost as part of any agreement.
Normally, Universities have spin-off companies, which the Universities have shareholdings in, and gain revenue from licensing their discoveries to others who then produce them - an example would be the Oxford University Innovation Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxford Uni.

https://eship.ox.ac.uk/organiser/oxf...ty-innovation/
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