Buying in or Selling Out?

by Stein, Donald G.

• ISBN13: 9780813533742
• ISBN10: 0813533740
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Universities were once ivory towers where scholarship and teaching reigned supreme, or so we tell ourselves. Whether they were ever as pure as we think, it is certainly the case that they are pure no longer. Administrators look to patents as they seek money by commercializing faculty discoveries; they pour money into sports with the expectation that these spectacles will somehow bring in revenue; they sign contracts with soda and fast-food companies, legitimizing the dominance of a single brand on campus; and they charge for distance learning courses that they market widely. In this volume, edited by Donald G. Stein, university presidents and others in higher education leadership positions comment on the many connections between business and scholarship when intellectual property is treated as a marketable commodity. Some contributors write about the benefits of these connections in providing much needed resources. Others emphasize that the thirst for profits may bias the type of research that is carried out and the quality of that research. They fear for the f

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Chapter 1 A Personal Perspective on the Selling of Academia	1	(16)
DONALD G. STEIN
Chapter 2 College Sports, Inc.: How Big-Time Athletic Departments Run Interference for College, Inc.	17	(15)
MURRAY SPERBER
Chapter 3 The Benefits and Cost of Commercialization of the Academy	32	(16)
DEREK BOK
Chapter 4 Increased Commercialization of the Academy Following the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980	48	(8)
MARY L. GOOD
Chapter 5 Delicate Balance: Market Forces versus the Public Interest	56	(19)
JAMES J. DUDERSTADT
Chapter 6 Pushing the Envelope in University Involvement with Commercialization	75	(14)
RONALD A. BOHLANDER
Chapter 7 Conflicting Goals and Values: When Commercialization Enters into Tenure and Promotion Decisions	89	(14)
KAREN A. HOLBROOK AND ERIC C. DAHL
Chapter 8 Buyer and Seller Views of University-Industry Licensing	103	(14)
JERRY G. THURSBY AND MARIE C. THURSBY
Chapter 9 The Increasingly Proprietary Nature of Publicly Funded Biomedical Research: Benefits and Threats	117	(10)
ARTI K. RAI
Chapter 10 The Clinical Trials Business: Who Gains?	127	(6)
MARCIA ANGELL
Chapter 11 Reforming Research Ethics in an Age of Multivested Science	133	(20)
SHELDON KRIMSKY
Chapter 12 The Academy and Industry: A View across the Divide	153	(8)
ZACH W. HALL
Chapter 13 Responsible Innovation in the Commercialized University	161	(14)
DAVID H. GUSTON
Contributors	175	(4)
Index	179