William T. Greenough is Swanlund Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Cell and Structural Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Philip J. McConnaughay is dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law at The Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law. Jay P. Kesan is professor and director of the Program in Intellectual Property & Technology Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 I. The Purpose of the Research UniversityChapter 3 1. Research Universities in the Third Millennium: Genius with CharacterChapter 4 2. The University of the Twenty-First Century: Artifact, Sea Anchor, or PathfinderChapter 5 3. Can Universities Survive the Global Knowledge Revolution?Part 6 II. Forging Partnerships: Industry, Governments, and the Research UniversityChapter 7 4. The Changing Nature of Innovation in the U.S.Chapter 8 5. Back to the Future—The Increasing Importance of the States in Setting the Research AgendaChapter 9 6. Global Public Goods for Poor Farmers—Myth or RealityChapter 10 7. Science and Sustainable Food SecurityPart 11 III. Funding, Economic Incentives, and the Research AgendaChapter 12 8. Federal Science Policy and University Research AgendasChapter 13 9. The Ethical Challenges of the Academic Pork BarrelChapter 14 10. The Public-Private Divide in GenomicsPart 15 IV. The Dark Side of University-Corporate PartnershipsChapter 16 11. The Effects of University/Corporate Relations on Biotechnology ResearchChapter 17 12. The Governmentalization and Corporatization of ResearchChapter 18 13. Technology and the Humanities in the "Global" Economy

A highly readable and equally troubling collection of essays addressing momentous questions about the future of academia: Can research universities afford not to 'follow the money' from public to private sources, and can society afford the long term results if the mission of universities becomes increasingly commercial, political, and shortsighted? There are no easy answers, but the contributors to this volume present both facts and varied opinions that are worth reading by anyone who wonders where the great discoveries of the future are going to come from.