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CBC News has found Huawei's financial ties to Canadian universities total more than $56 million. But there are no federal guidelines around how these investments should be managed and disclosed, and that raises questions about who will own the findings of the research and the resulting patents.
[...] "Frankly, the government of Canada has fallen down catastrophically," says Christopher Parsons, a senior research associate at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which studies the way information is used, and misused, across technologies. "No one knows exactly what they should be doing."
Parsons, who is also the managing director of the Telecom Transparency Project, says the government's failure to set out policy guidelines for private sector funding has made it difficult for universities, which rely on that funding to stay at the forefront of wireless research and, in turn, attract top students.
Huawei says it is one of the biggest funders of academic research in Canada. Google, Microsoft, Rogers and Bell are among the others but declined to provide CBC News with any figures. Like Huawei, they are not required to disclose funding details.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/huawei-academic-funding-in-canada-1.5372310
Canadian universities pwned by big corp: does anyone else remember when universities and governments did research without the financial 'help' of corporations?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @05:06PM (4 children)
They did research with the financial "help" of the military and intelligence agencies. In fact, they still do.
Personally, I prefer corporate sponsorship of research. They are usually interested less in offensive applications.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @06:55PM
Butbut this is the Chicoms engaging in the capitalist model of research and science! We can't have those commie bastards becoming a powerful capitalist country without paying Danegeld to the US empire!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 02 2019, @02:20AM
Unless of course in some countries/regions, separation of corporations and government goes from a gamut of none existent to officially so but practically not - which basically boils down to the same thing, military/intelligence agency sponsored if you follow the bread crumb to source.
Folks, despots, warlords and drug barons hire professionals to hide their money trail and blood stains but they are all amateurs when compared to the likes of China.
Continue to think that Chinese MNCs like Huawei are purely corporate equivalent of the western world like the Apples and Microsofts where there exist some side channel government arm-twisting mandates instead of actually being baked into the formalization of the corporate vision form day 1 and one day you'll be in for a very surprising revelation.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Monday December 02 2019, @09:29AM
Yeah but this is Huawei and it's been nearly a week since the last Huawei-bashing story has run so there's a need for some filler. In the meantime please pay no attention to all the CIA-sponsored research [wikipedia.org] that's going on. You can trust them, they've never done anything dubious, it's Huawei you need to focus on.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday December 03 2019, @04:39PM
Based on what evidence? Once an organization has reached a significant enough size, they're gonna be open to all avenues of raking in the dough. Offensive, Defensive, Exploitative, or otherwise. Google, the darling of the tech community, the "Don't be Evil" organization, phasing out the "Don't be evil" motto. Is a nice example.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"