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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A background note and acknowledgments
- Introduction
- pt. 1. The setting and the system
- 1. Money for science : never enough
- 2. Elusive industrial angels
- 3. Commercialize! It's the law
- 4. Changing attitudes
- 5. The price of profits
- 6. Conflicts and interests
- 7. A new regime
- pt. 2. As seen from the inside
- six conversations
- 8. Success and remorse
- 9. A congenial partnership
- 10. When the rules change in midstream
- 11. Profits and principles
- 12. Generations apart
- 13. The journals revolt
- pt. 3. Fixing the system
- 14. What's right and wrong, and how to make it better
- Epilogue : A parable for our time
- List of abbreviations
- Notes
- Index.