Is the bigger concern about big oil in university research more about existing oil companies using their positions to grab the keys to the new alternative energy kingdom... or about them taking promising new technologies to the shed out back, and dispatching them, Old Yeller-style, before they ever see the light of market?
Monopolistic concerns, or is it about thwarting technology?
Submitted on May 29th, 2007 by InterestedReaderIs the bigger concern about big oil in university research more about existing oil companies using their positions to grab the keys to the new alternative energy kingdom... or about them taking promising new technologies to the shed out back, and dispatching them, Old Yeller-style, before they ever see the light of market?