"the Toronto team sold their patent rights to the university for $1 apiece in an effort to protect its integrity from greedy commercial enterprises"
"Eventually, Banting and his team reluctantly agreed: Lilly was granted exclusive rights to manufacture and distribute insulin in the United States for one year"
This makes no sense to me! If they were not interested in making money, as to donate their patent rights, why not letting it be public? Why selling it to a university? Then why get shocked that an academic organization does a poor job on scaling up production and on other non-academic related things? Oh, and the cherry on top, why did it have to be manufacturing exclusive rights?!
"Eventually, Banting and his team reluctantly agreed: Lilly was granted exclusive rights to manufacture and distribute insulin in the United States for one year"
This makes no sense to me! If they were not interested in making money, as to donate their patent rights, why not letting it be public? Why selling it to a university? Then why get shocked that an academic organization does a poor job on scaling up production and on other non-academic related things? Oh, and the cherry on top, why did it have to be manufacturing exclusive rights?!