THE CHANGING CONTEXT OF ACADEMIC SCIENCE: UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY RELATIONS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE PUBLIC POLICY IMPLICATIONS |
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| Authors: | Kenneth P. Rusclo |
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| Affiliation: | Postdoctoral research scholar with the Comparative Higher Education Research Group a t UCLA. He has worked as science policy analyst for the U.S. General Accounting Office and has taught in the Political Science Department a t the University of Kansas. He i s currently working on a study of the American academic profession which i s funded b y the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. |
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The issue of university-industry relations in the field of biotechnology illustrates the changing context of academic science. Research has become an organizational enterprise and no longer can be seen as simply the accumulation of individual efforts. This development complicates the normative context of academic science and in so doing introduces important policy questions, especially regarding interaction between industry and universities. Funding, faculty conflict of Interest, and the ownership of intellectual property resulting from research are policy issues which are analyzed in the context of some of the recent organizational changes in the performance of academic research. |
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