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Rams Publications
Commercialization of RAMS
The development
of a societally useful product by a university necessitates a mechanism
to distribute this product beyond the university. The Bayh-Dole Act of
1980 provides that patents or licenses developed with federally funded
research dollars belong to the university in which they were developed.
The Act is designed to encourage commercialization of these products.
Colorado State University, where RAMS has been developed, requires all
Principal Investigators to report to the University, whenever a commercially
valuable product is developed.
This proceedure
was followed for RAMS. A company, Aster Inc., was set up in the 1980s
to facilitate this technology transfer. RAMS was licensed, as required
by the University, with the license assigned to Mission Research Corporation
(MRC), which incorporated Aster into its company in the early 1990s. The
Aster Division of MRC is managed by Dr. Craig Tremback. MRC performs the
software support for RAMS, and is the company in which users obtain licenses.
Software support is not provided by the RAMS personnel at the University
since it is inappropriate for these individuals to perform this service,
when they are sponsored under non-related research grants and contracts.
Unlike other regional and mesoscale modeling groups, RAMS has never had
base funding from the National Science Foundation, or other agency, to
provide this support service.
RAMS is available
through a license from MRC to qualified users. Its use is encouraged.
RAMS web sites are located at the Department of Atmospheric Science at
Colorado State University and at Aster. A list of peer-reviewed papers
which use RAMS is provided on the Web site http://blue.atmos.colostate.edu.
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