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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, 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.