Defining Values for Research and Technology

The University's Changing Role

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

AvWilliam T. Greenough,Philip J. McConnaughay,Jay P. Kesan

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Since the end of the Cold War, federal funding for research at American universities has sharply decreased, leaving administrators searching for a new benefactor. At the same time, changes in federal policy permitting universities to patent, license, and profit from their discoveries combined with the emergence of new fields that thinned the lines between 'basic' and 'applied' research to make universities an attractive partner to private industry. This reorientation from public to private funding has created new challenges for the academy. In thirteen insightful and wide-ranging essays, Defining Values for Research and Technology examines the modern research university in the throes of transition. Contributors discuss the tensions of research versus education, public funding versus corporatization, and the academic freedom of open discussion versus the secrecy needed to ensure financial gain. Will universities and their professors pursue industrial imperatives at the expense of traditional academic values, or will they harness the energy of industry to advance a mission of research for the public good? Defining Values for Research and Technology, while acknowledging potential dangers, argues that university-industry partnerships have the potential to both benefit industrial expansion and enrich academic life. In doing so, it raises important points about the connections between 'pure' science and industrialized technology more generally, and the role that policy plays in science. Both those interested in the evolution of the academy and scholars of the history and sociology of science will find something worthwhile within its pages.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-11-17
Mått153 x 228 x 19 mm
Vikt372 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780742550261

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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.