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Science for sale : the perils, rewards, and delusions of campus capitalism /
In recent years the news media have been awash in stories about increasingly close ties between college campuses and multimillion-dollar corporations. Our nation?s universities, the story goes, reap enormous windfalls patenting products of scientific research that have been primarily funded by taxpa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In recent years the news media have been awash in stories about increasingly close ties between college campuses and multimillion-dollar corporations. Our nation?s universities, the story goes, reap enormous windfalls patenting products of scientific research that have been primarily funded by taxpayers. Meanwhile, hoping for new streams of revenue from their innovations, the same universities are allowing their research?and their very principles?to become compromised by quests for profit. But is that really the case? Is money really hopelessly corrupting science?. With Science for Sale, accla. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 324 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-311) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226306261 0226306267 1281956945 9781281956941 |