Degrees of Compromise: Industrial Interests and Academic Values

Degrees of Compromise: Industrial Interests and Academic Values
ISBN-10
0791490971
ISBN-13
9780791490976
Category
Science
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
2001-04-05
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Authors
Jennifer Croissant, Sal Restivo

Description

Degrees of Compromise probes the convergence of for-profit business collaborations with higher education. Interdisciplinary in scope, the collection questions the effects of commercialization activities on undergraduate student values and graduate education practice and ethics, research autonomy, institutional prestige, and scientific imperatives such as objectivity. Included are philosophical analyses of the professional status of faculty in higher education; ethnographic explorations of technology transfer, laboratory design, scientific assumptions, and graduate education; and a quantitative assessment of patenting and its relationship to institutional prestige and resources.

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