Defining Values for Research and Technology The University's Changing Role

by Greenough, William T.; McConnaughay, Philip J.; Kesan, Jay P.; Bloch, Erich; Carlson, Ann B.; Cassaday, Kelly; Desai, Lord Meghnad; Eisenberg, Rebecca; Gibbons, John H.; Hansen, Michael K.; Langenberg, Donald N.; Miller, Toby; Miyoshi, Masao; Olsen, Kathi

• ISBN13: 9780742550261
• ISBN10: 0742550265
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-17
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Since the end of the Cold War, federal funding for research at American universities has sharply decreased, while changes in federal policy have combined with the emergence of new high-technology fields to make universities an attractive partner to private industry. In thirteen insightful and wide-ranging essays, Defining Values for Research and Technology examines the modern research university in the throes of this transition. While acknowledging the challenges of increased corporate funding, its contributors argue that university-industry partnerships have the potential to both benefit industrial expansion and enrich academic life.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables	ix
Introduction	xi
Section I: The Purpose of the Research University
Research Universities in the Third Millennium: Genius with Character	3	(8)
Donald N. Langenberg
The University of the Twenty-first Century: Artifact, Sea Anchor, or Pathfinder?	11	(10)
John H. Gibbons
Can Universities Survive the Global Knowledge Revolution?	21	(14)
Lord Meghnad Desai
Section II: Forging Partnerships with Industry and Governments
The Changing Nature of Innovation in the United States	35	(18)
Erich Bloch
Back to the Future: The Increasing Importance of the States in Setting the Research Agenda	53	(16)
Larry Smarr
Global Public Goods for Poor Farmers: Myth or Reality?	69	(30)
Timothy G. Reeves
Kelly A. Cassaday
Science and Sustainable Food Security	99	(18)
M. S. Swaminathan
Section III: Funding, Economic Incentives, and the Research Agenda
Federal Science Policy and University Research Agendas	117	(12)
Kathie L. Olsen
Ann B. Carlson
The Ethical Challenges of the Academic Pork Barrel	129	(20)
James D. Savage
The Public-Private Divide in Genomics	149	(22)
Rebecca Eisenberg
Section IV: The Dark Side of University-Corporate Partnerships
The Effects of University-Corporate Relations on Biotechnology Research	171	(18)
Michael K. Hansen
The Governmentalization and Corporatization of Research	189	(22)
Toby Miller
Technology and the Humanities in the ``Global'' Economy	211	(14)
Masao Miyoshi
Index	225	(6)
About the Editors	231	(2)
About the Contributors	233