To buy or to lease: The advantages and costs of leasing versus buying scientific instruments for academic core facilities

Yupeng Wang; Douglas S Richardson

doi:10.15252/embr.202049971

To buy or to lease: The advantages and costs of leasing versus buying scientific instruments for academic core facilities

EMBO Rep. 2020 May 6;21(5):e49971. doi: 10.15252/embr.202049971. Epub 2020 Apr 19.

Authors

Yupeng Wang¹, Douglas S Richardson^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
² Harvard Center for Biological Imaging, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
³ Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Abstract

Leasing instead of purchasing scientific instruments is an economic option for academic core facilities to stay technologically ahead and competitive with predictable, consistent costs.

MeSH terms

Leasing, Property*