(Speech) Mr.Medvedev expresses hope the well-being of Russia in the near future will directly depend on a successful market of ideas, inventions,and discoveries.
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The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, along with subsequent amendments, spurred academic institutions to exploit their inventionsanddiscoveries.
Moreover, for all the rhetoric of functionalism, even in their own time the most notable 1920s and '30s Bauhaus buildings and objects were really aesthetic explorations of new materials and techniques, or conceptual critiques of life in an industrial age--rather than technological inventions or discoveries in the scientific sense.