The University-Industrial Complex
11 Aug 2010 12:42Evolution. Effects on American politics, culture. Presence, parallels and competitors abroad.
I'm not responsible for the phrase, certainly, but I can't remember where on earth I stole it from.
- Recommended:
- Eyal Press and Jennifer Watson, "The Kept University," Atlantic Monthly March 2000 [on-line]
- Robert Teitelman, The Profits of Science: The American Marriage of Science and Technology
- To read:
- Derek Bok, Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education
- Lewis Branscomb, Fumio Kodama and Richard Florida (eds.), Industrializing Knowledge
- Kenneth W. Dam, "Intellectual Property and the Academic Enterprise", John M. Olin Law and Economics Working Paper No. 68 (2nd series), University of Chicago (1997) [PDF]
- Henry Etzkowitz
- "Innovation in Innovation: The Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations", Social Science Information 42 (2004): 293--337
- MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science
- Henry Etzkowitz and Loet Leydesdorff (eds.), Universities and the Global Knowledge Economy: A Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government Relations
- Henry Etzkowitz et al., Capitalizing Knowledge: New Intersections of Industry and Academia
- Roger L. Geiger and Creso M. Sá, Tapping the Riches of Science: Universities and the Promise of Economic Growth [blurb]
- Christophe Lécuyer, Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 [Blurb]
- Christopher Newfield, Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980
- David F. Noble, America by Design: Science, Technology and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism.
- Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades, Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education [Blurb]
- Lawrence C. Soley, Leasing the Ivory Tower --- The Corporate Takeover of Academia ["The impact of big business on academia is investigated. Computer companies, pharmaceutical firms, and engineering businesses are among the particular business groups which are skewing the activities of universities around the country. The effects of the Pentagon also come under examination. Soley relates many telling examples in this study which, to its credit, does not take the sensationalism of an expose, but rather presents a sobering, compelling case."]
- Susan Raymond (ed.), Science-Based Economic Development: Case Studies Around the World, vol. 798 of the Annals of the N.Y. Academy of Sciences
- James D. Savage, Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel
- Jennifer Washburn, University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of American Higher Education
