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To Attract Innovation, DoD Spy Lab Lets Researchers Keep Intellectual Property

Wednesday, March 14th, 2018

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To Attract Innovation, DoD Spy Lab Lets Researchers Keep Intellectual Property

Jason Matheny, director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity

When it poses a scientific problem to the world, the Pentagon’s research laboratory for spies never asks respondents to surrender their intellectual property because doing so scares off innovative startup businesses“We leave it to the inventor,” said Jason Matheny, director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, often referred to as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for spies.“We do not ask the inventor to give up their intellectual property, for a couple reasons,” Matheny told reporters March 14…

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