Panel with Luc Montaigner and James Heckman
I just had the incredible opportunity of being in a panel at The International Economic Forum of the Americas conference with Luc Montagnier and James Heckman. The panel was on innovation and economic development and the debate centered around patents and whether patents promote economic development or not.
Although the panel went on for around 2 hours the summary of it is that Luc Montaigner, the co discoverer of the AIDS virus, was for patents and James Heckman, the Nobel prize in Economics, against. While Luc Montaigner made a good case as to why patents are needed in the field of medicine, James Heckman made the best case I had ever heard as to why patents mostly hurt development. When it was my turn I sided with Heckman, elaborating on the open source movement and how I oppose all technology related patents outside of medicine.
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Posted by Cantani, Arnaldo - February 1, 2009 9:40 pm - #
To-night, the Italian RAI3 program “Che tempo che fa” has interviewed the famous Professor Luc Montaigner, who said that.working scientists should not be pensioned too early off.
For example, the Rome University “La Sapinza” pensioned me at 68 years off, not considering that I am the only scientist who founded the discipline of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, first in Italy (Verduci, 2000) and then in the whole world (Springer, Heidelberg). It is of note that three books of sole Pediatric Allergy were published in the German, Portuguese, and English languages, this last one, the more “recent” in 2003.
Professor Arnaldo Cantani, Roma
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To-night, the Italian RAI3 program “Che tempo che fa” has interviewed the famous Professor Luc Montaigner, who said that.working scientists should not be pensioned too early off.
For example, the Rome University “La Sapienza” pensioned me at 68 years off, not considering that I am the only scientist who founded the discipline of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, first in Italy (Verduci, 2000) and then in the whole world (Springer, Heidelberg). It is of note that three books of sole Pediatric Allergy were published in the German, Portuguese, and English languages, this last one, the more “recent” in 2003.
Professor Arnaldo Cantani, Roma