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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowPurdue University is opening up intellectual property rights to student-inventors who make technological breakthroughs using university resources.
Purdue President Mitch Daniels said Friday the change will "foster a culture of entrepreneurship" across Purdue's system.
The policy could be strictly interpreted to make any invention created with university resources, such as the use of a school laboratory, subject to Purdue's ownership, The Journal & Courier reported.
But Daniels says a new policy reinterpretation opens up intellectual property rights to student-inventors if they make their breakthroughs in a class where other students had access to the same resources.
Exceptions are students paid to create an invention or who are supported by a federal or corporate grant. They might share or cede property rights to Purdue or that funding agency.
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