Defining values for research and technology : the university's changing role / edited by William T. Greenough, Philip J. McConnaughay, and Jay P. Kesan. - xix, 239 p. ; 23 cm.

The purpose of the research university -- Research universities in the third millennium : genius with character / The university of the twenty-first century : artifact, sea anchor, or pathfinder? / Can universities survive the global knowledge revolution? / Forging partnerships with industry and governments -- The changing nature of innovation in the United States / Back to the future : the increasing importance of the states in setting the research agenda / Global public goods for poor farmers : myth or reality? / Science and sustainable food security / Funding, economic incentives, and the research agenda -- Federal science policy and university research agendas / The ethical challenges of the academic pork barrel / The public-private divide in genomics / The dark side of university-corporate partnerships -- The effects of university-corporate relations on biotechnology research / The governmentalization and corporatization of research / Technology and the humanities in the "global" economy / Donald N. Langenberg -- John H. Gibbons -- Meghnad Desai -- Erich Bloch -- Larry Smarr -- Timothy G. Reeves and Kelly A. Cassaday -- M. S. Swaminathan -- Kathie L. Olsen and Ann B. Carlson -- James D. Savage -- Rebecca Eisenberg -- Michael K. Hansen -- Toby Miller -- Masao Miyoshi. Sect. I. 1. 2. 3. Sect. II. 4. 5. 6. 7. Sect. III. 8. 9. 10. Sect. IV. 11. 12. 13.

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Academic-industrial collaboration--United States
Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States
Universities and colleges--United States
Research--United States

LC1085.2 / .D42 2007

378.103