With this perspective in mind, this piece suggests using university contracts as pathways for ensuring that innovations developed using federal funds sufficiently benefit those who have funded it. In brief, the paper identifies five potential ways in which contractual requirements could prove valuable and addresses navigating potential roadblocks to the implementation of these types of provisions.
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