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The Commodification of Academic Research : Science and the Modern University.

Radder, Hans.

The Commodification of Academic Research : Science and the Modern University. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (361 pages)

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

Selling science has become a common practice in contemporary universities. This commodification of academia pervades many aspects of higher education. This volume offers the first book-length analysis of this disturbing trend from a philosophical perspective and presents views by scholars of philosophy of science, social and political philosophy, and research ethics.

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