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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

6 Schools like Stanford, MIT, and Yale immediately scrambled to create technology transfer offices that helped them privatize and profit from the work done in laboratories sitting on tax-exempt land. Real estate developers like Wexford: Science + Technology have calculated the benefits of working on property-tax-exempt campus land.