Defining Values for Research and Technology The University's Changing Role,9780742550254

Defining Values for Research and Technology The University's Changing Role

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ISBN13: 9780742550254
ISBN10: 0742550257
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-11-16
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

Since the end of the Cold War, federal funding for research at American universities has sharply decreased, while changes in federal policy have combined with the emergence of new high-technology fields to make universities an attractive partner to private industry. In thirteen insightful and wide-ranging essays, Defining Values for Research and Technology examines the modern research university in the throes of this transition. While acknowledging the challenges of increased corporate funding, its contributors argue that university-industry partnerships have the potential to both benefit industrial expansion and enrich academic life.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables ix
Introduction xi
Section I: The Purpose of the Research University
1. Research Universities in the Third Millennium: Genius with Character
3(8)
Donald N. Langenberg
2. The University of the 'Twenty-first Century: Artifact, Sea Anchor, or Pathfinder?
11(10)
John Gibbons
3. Can Universities Survive the Global Knowledge Revolution?
21(14)
Lord Meghnad Desai
Section II: Forging Partnerships with Industry and Governments
4. The Changing Nature of Innovation in the United States
35(18)
Erich Bloch
5. Back to the Future: The Increasing Importance of the States in Setting the Research Agenda
53(16)
Limy Smarr
6. Global Public Goods for Poor Farmers: Myth or Reality?
69(30)
Timothy C. Reeves and Kelly A. Cassaday
7. Science and Sustainable Food Security
99(18)
M.S. Swaminathan
Section III: Funding, Economic Incentives, and the Research Agenda
8. Federal Science Policy and University Research Agendas
117(12)
Kathie L. Olsen and Ann B. Carlson
9. The Ethical Challenges of the Academic Pork Barrel
129(20)
James D. Savage
10. The Public-Private Divide in Genomics
149(22)
Rebecca Eisenberg
Section IV: The Dark Side of University-Corporate Partnerships
11. The Effects of University-Corporate Relations on Biotechnology Research
171(18)
Michael K. Hansen
12. The Governmentalization and Corporatization of Research
189(22)
Toby Miller
13. Technology and the Ilumanities in the "Global" Economy
211(14)
Masao Aliyoshi
Index 225(6)
About the Editors 231(2)
About the Contributors 233

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