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This sounds super interesting but my knowledge in this area is too limited to fully get what you're saying. they're the intellectual equivalent of buying mining rights for $5/acre ... The key is prospecting. You want to look around, get a good idea of how big a particular reserve is, and go for something big. Could you elaborate on this a little or give an example? As far as I understand CRADA is "cooperative R&D", s…
> So if the govt already gets a license to the patents, and the tech has been developed with defense purposes in mind, how am I going to profit as a private company? Let's break that down a bit... So the government has patent rights. They'd have to exercise them, which requires product development. Are you aware of the government selling many widgets to citizens? They sell road maintenance, insurance, and security se…
To me CRADAs just sound like a vehicle to share R&D costs, which, in most companies, aren't dominating the budget. So they can be a nice help but no game-changer.
However you mentioned "mining rights" and "going for something big", so it sounded like there's another way to look at this, which I was interested to hear about.