How Governments Incentivize Tech Employees

Let’s look at how the CIA is incentivizing tech employees, since they can’t compete with private sector salaries.

The CIA created CIA Labs that will allow:

• CIA employees to publicly file patents on the intellectual property 
• CIA employees for the 1st time would be able to collect a portion of the the profits & the CIA gets the remainder of the profits
  • The cap for the employee: 15% of the total income from the new invention with a cap of $150,000 per year.

MIT Technology Review | CIA’s new tech recruiting pitch: More patents, more profits