Growing Pains for New Academic/Industry Relationships

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    David Blumenthal
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Prologue: If fiction gives voice to certain anxieties that confront a society, then concerns about recent changes in academic/industry relationships extend far beyond the halls of congress and academe. David Blumenthal points out that the issue of foreign industrial control over major American universities forms the backdrop for Michael Crichton's 1992 bestseller, Rising Sun: “The concern about these new technology transfer arrangements is that they encourage closer ties between universities and industry, thus potentially threatening academia's traditional role as a bulwark of open and disinterested inquiry. In raising the specter of foreign control over university research in the United States, Crichton merely adds a nationalistic twist to a discussion that has provoked soul-searching and anxiety in American government and academia for a number of years.” Blumenthal, who holds advanced degrees in medicine and public policy from Harvard University, is a widely recognized expert on academic/industry relati...

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