The Commodification of Academic Research: Science and the Modern University

Contents

Contents Preface vii 1. The Commodification of Academic Research 1 Hans Radder 2. The Commercialization of Academic Culture and the Future of the University 24 Daniel Lee Kleinman 3. Knowledge Transfer from Academia to Industry through Patenting and Licensing: Rhetoric and Reality 44 Sigrid Sterckx 4. Financial Interests and the Norms of Academic Science 65 David B. Resnik 5. One-Shot Science 90 James Robert Brown 6. The Business of Drug Research: A Mixed Blessing 110 Albert W. Musschenga, Wim J. van der Steen, and Vincent K. Y. Ho 7. The Commodification of Knowledge Exchange: Governing the Circulation of Biological Data 132 Sabina Leonelli 8. Research under Pressure: Methodological Features of Commercialized Science 158 Martin Carrier 9. Robert Merton, Intellectual Property, and Open Science: A Sociological History for Our Times 187 Henk van den Belt vi Contents 10. Mertonian Values, Scientific Norms, and the Commodification of Academic Research 231 Hans Radder 11. Coercion, Corruption, and Politics in the Commodification of Academic Science 259 Mark B. Brown 12. Capitalism and Knowledge: The University between Commodification and Entrepreneurship 277 Steve Fuller 13. Viable Alternatives for Commercialized Science: The Case of Humanistics 307 Harry Kunneman List of Contributors 337 Index 341 ...