1. Rui Sun Maria Vall Mia Sterby Jiaojiao Yang Tobias Warnatz
Patent or Publish
Rui Sun
Maria Vall
Mia Sterby
Jiaojiao Yang
Tobias Warnatz

2. Moral dilemma
You have discovered something with great commercial value and highly beneficial for society. The question is if you should patent or publish it?
Patent Ensure that you can make money from it, take longer for other researchers to learn stuff from your ideas, can’t present the research (conference etc.) in any form while the patent is being drafted
Publish  open for everyone, your results will be published faster, It will be harder for you to make money out of it.

3. All reasonable alternative actions to solve the problem
Problem owner: Researcher and co-workers
The dilemma: Publish or patent important research
Autonomy Matrix
All principles, values, interests, duties, feelings, needs etc. of all involved parts
Make Money
Contribute to Society
Scientific Career
Public Image
All reasonable alternative actions to solve the problem
Publish
Possibilities: No
Risks: Won’t make any money
Possibilities: Everyone can use your discovery
Risks: Possible abuse
Possibilities: More publications /citation, more funding
Risks: Low attention to your research
Possibilities: You look like a good person,
Risks: You look stupid
Patent
Possibilities: Make a fortune
Risks: Not get your investment (patent cost) back
Possibilities: You can control that it is used for good
Risks: Society will not benefit from it. Nobody/less people can use it.
Possibilities: Merit to have patent, more funding from interested companies
Risks: No publications/conferences for a while
Possibilities: You look cleaver
Risks: You look greedy