Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface vii
1. The Commodification of Academic Research 1
Hans Radder
2. The Commercialization of Academic Culture and the Future
of the University 24
Daniel Lee Kleinman
3. Knowledge Transfer from Academia to Industry through
Patenting and Licensing: Rhetoric and Reality 44
Sigrid Sterckx
4. Financial Interests and the Norms of Academic Science 65
David B. Resnik
5. One-Shot Science 90
James Robert Brown
6. The Business of Drug Research: A Mixed Blessing 110
Albert W. Musschenga, Wim J. van der Steen, and Vincent K. Y. Ho
7. The Commodification of Knowledge Exchange: Governing the
Circulation of Biological Data 132
Sabina Leonelli
8. Research under Pressure: Methodological Features of
Commercialized Science 158
Martin Carrier
9. Robert Merton, Intellectual Property, and Open Science:
A Sociological History for Our Times 187
Henk van den Belt

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Contents
10. Mertonian Values, Scientific Norms, and the Commodification
of Academic Research 231
Hans Radder
11. Coercion, Corruption, and Politics in the Commodification of
Academic Science 259
Mark B. Brown
12. Capitalism and Knowledge: The University between
Commodification and Entrepreneurship 277
Steve Fuller
13. Viable Alternatives for Commercialized Science: The Case
of Humanistics 307
Harry Kunneman
List of Contributors 337
Index 341

Selling science has become a common practice in contemporary universities. This commodification of academia pervades many aspects of higher education, including research, teaching, and administration. As such, it raises significant philosophical, political, and moral challenges. 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. The epistemic and moral responsibilities of universities, whether for-profit or nonprofit, are examined from several philosophical standpoints. The contributors discuss the pertinent epistemological and methodological questions, the sociopolitical issues of the organization of science, the tensions between commodified practices and the ideal of “science for the public good,” and the role of governmental regulation and personal ethical behavior. In order to counter coercive and corruptive influences of academic commodification, the contributors consider alternatives to commodified research and offer practical recommendations for establishing appropriate research standards, methodologies and institutional arrangements, and a corresponding normative ethos. Taken from the Publisher's Site.