Defining Values for Research and Technology

The University's Changing Role

William T. Greenough, Philip J. McConnaughay, Jay P. Kesan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2006
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7425-5025-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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 Introduction
Part 2 I. The Purpose of the Research University
Chapter 3 1. Research Universities in the Third Millennium: Genius with Character
Chapter 4 2. The University of the Twenty-First Century: Artifact, Sea Anchor, or Pathfinder
Chapter 5 3. Can Universities Survive the Global Knowledge Revolution?
Part 6 II. Forging Partnerships: Industry, Governments, and the Research University
Chapter 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 Agenda
Chapter 9 6. Global Public Goods for Poor Farmers—Myth or Reality
Chapter 10 7. Science and Sustainable Food Security
Part 11 III. Funding, Economic Incentives, and the Research Agenda
Chapter 12 8. Federal Science Policy and University Research Agendas
Chapter 13 9. The Ethical Challenges of the Academic Pork Barrel
Chapter 14 10. The Public-Private Divide in Genomics
Part 15 IV. The Dark Side of University-Corporate Partnerships
Chapter 16 11. The Effects of University/Corporate Relations on Biotechnology Research
Chapter 17 12. The Governmentalization and Corporatization of Research
Chapter 18 13. Technology and the Humanities in the "Global" Economy

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.1.2007
Co-Autor	Erich Bloch, Ann B. Carlson
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 239 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung ► Unterrichts-Handreichungen
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-7425-5025-7 / 0742550257
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-5025-4 / 9780742550254
Zustand	Neuware