The commodification of academic research : : science and the modern university / / edited by Hans Radder.

• TeilnehmendeR: Radder, Hans,
• Place / Publishing House: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : : University of Pittsburgh Press,, [2010]; 2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (361 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Revised and expanded papers from an international workshop held in June 2007 at the Faculty of Philosophy, VU University Amsterdam.

"'This volume offers a very balanced, thorough, accessible treatment of an unsettling topic---the current large-scale economic shaping of academic scientific research. Of first-rate importance to scientists and philosophers of science as well as those in the wider science studies and scien...

Table of Contents

• The commodification of academic research / Hans Radder
• The commercialization of academic culture and the future of the university / Daniel Lee Kleinman
• Knowledge transfer from academia to industry through patenting and licensing : rhetoric and reality / Sigrid Sterckx
• Financial interests and the norms of academic science / David B. Resnik
• One-shot science / James Robert Brown
• The business of drug research : a mixed blessing / Albert W. Musschenga, Wim J. van der Steen, and Vincent K.Y. Ho
• The commodification of knowledge exchange : governing the circulation of biological data / Sabina Leonelli
• Research under pressure : methodological features of commercialized science / Martin Carrier
• Robert Merton, intellectual property, and open science : a sociological history for our times / Henk van den Belt
• Mertonian values, scientific norms, and the commodification of academic research / Hans Radder
• Coercion, corruption, and politics in the commodification of academic science / Mark B. Brown
• Capitalism and knowledge : the university between commodification and entrepreneurship / Steve Fuller
• Viable alternatives for commercialized science : the case of humanistics / Harry Kunneman.