"This may be difficult for you to understand, Christina, but many university researchers work for the public good, without personal profit as a motive."


Randy, as you know I am a university researcher. You don't need to explain to me that we don't work for profit. We are salaried, and profits from our inventions belong to the university, not to us. A few on this Bee-L list have set up companies on the side, it's true, but most of us just work in our labs and don't try to become business tycoons. Your explanation falls directly into the political realm, and that is of course why there are frustrations among scientists. You originally said only Monsanto had enough money to get THEIR cultivars out, but not university scientists....I challenged that because it's the universities who commercialize our inventions and it's the universities who benefit. Now you are telling a different tale, yes? Now you say "Those are traits that may not be worth spending $50 million to commercialize, but would sure benefit poor dirt farmers who helplessly watch their crops of current cultivars fail."


So we lay the blame at low profit margin?


Christina


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