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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: 3, Insightful) by Coward, Anonymous on Sunday December 01 2019, @05:17PM (8 children)
Impressive: three out of the last four articles are bashing China.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @05:24PM
And not a single "bash" was illegitimate. Fuck China.
(Score: 1) by hopdevil on Sunday December 01 2019, @05:27PM (1 child)
It is Thanksgiving weekend in the states, news is slow so propaganda flows. I don't blame soylent for it..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 01 2019, @06:19PM
None of those stories was propaganda. China really does have rampant research fraud and drops rocket boosters on buildings.
Why shouldn't academics complain about Huawei funding? They complain about oil, Israel, etc.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday December 01 2019, @06:15PM
As Angelica Pickles says, if the shoe hurts, wear it. And this from someone who grew up in basically China's US landing zone (Flushing, NYC) and has an ethnically Chinese (but nationally Malaysian) girlfriend. The PRC is going to create a technological dystopia *and export it.* There is no solution to this that doesn't involve hundreds of megadeaths.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday December 01 2019, @06:49PM (2 children)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 02 2019, @03:52AM (1 child)
The question is who gets the patents. Remember that the Universities are government subsidized, so there are legitimate questions about whether or not Canadian tax money should be supporting their work, never mind if Huawei is claiming exclusive use of the results.
(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Monday December 02 2019, @04:03AM
Canada can always choose not to subsidize their universities, if they don't like the consequences of those subsidies. It's not Huawei's job to police Canadian government policy on universities.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday December 02 2019, @12:29PM
One needs to ramp up the rhetoric well before Christmas to build up an China-adverse reaction and make the population rallied and less inclined to blame trump for the pains it's gonna feel once the tariff wars resume [theguardian.com].
With all the de-peaching or whatevs of his orangeness, have you forgotten those tariffs already?
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