Universities in the age of corporate science : the UC Berkeley-Novartis controversy / Alan P. Rudy ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rudy, Alan P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business and education--United States.

Business and education.

Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States.

Education, Higher.

University of California, Berkeley.

Novartis Agricultural Discovery Institute, Inc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As a result of widespread financial pressures, U.S. research universities increasingly stress the pursuit of funding beyond that available from government grants and contracts. Concomitantly, recent legal changes have encouraged universities to develop closer ties to the private business sector.This book represents the most thorough review ever undertaken of a major collaboration between industry and academe. A professional evaluation team obtained authorization for unprecedented access to those associated with the landmark 25 million contract entered into by the Plant and Microbial Biol

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Glossary of Acronyms; ONE Theoretical Framework; TWO The Changing World of Universities; THREE Land Grant Universities, Agricultural Science, and UC Berkeley; FOUR A Chronology of Events; FIVE Points of Contention; SIX Overview and Analysis of the Agreement; SEVEN The Agreement and the Public Stage; EIGHT The Scientific Enterprise; NINE Intellectual Property Rights; TEN The Impact and Significance of UCB-N on UCB and CNR; ELEVEN Rethinking the Role of Public and Land Grant Universities

TWELVE Constructing the Future: Re-visioning UniversitiesNotes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-232) and index.

ISBN:

9786611151201

9781281151209

1281151203

9781592135356

1592135358

OCLC:

614480709