In 1954, Jonas Salk announced that he had developed a vaccine for polio at the University of Pittsburgh. In a television interview, he was asked why he had not taken out a patent on an invention clearly worth millions. Salk replied, “How can you patent the sun?”
How far we have come! In an age when researchers race to map and patent the entire human…
Keith Banting
Keith Banting holds the Queen’s Research Chair in Public Policy at Queen’s University. He was a member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council from 1986 to 1992 and vice-president of the council from 1990 to 1992.