December 11, 1998

Berkeley Pact With a Swiss Company Takes Technology Transfer to a New Level

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

When an entire department is involved, has the university given away too much?

From his dean's perch at the University of California at Berkeley, Gordon Rausser saw one thing clearly as he watched giant life-sciences companies like DuPont, Monsanto, and Novartis racing furiously in the last few years to amass and control information about plant genomics: He saw an

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