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Subject: Re: there's a firefly in my brain

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pa

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Date Posted: 01/12/06 9:19:07pm
In reply to: pjk 's message, "Re: there's a firefly in my brain" on 01/12/06 3:12:12pm

pjk says: As we all know, much research and ingenuity
>takes place a public universities, funded by the
>public and the students, that serves a higher purpose
>- to benefit society and the world at large. I don't
>know the history, but it appears as though more and
>more people and companies take advantage of the tax
>payer subsidized work and then turn aroudn and
>"privatize" the work and charge the public again.

But what about Research universities long involvement with industry to symbiotic benefit?
..of course the most commonly funded by industry is any commercially valuable innovations. pros and cons obviously... Over the past two decades there has been a huge increase in corporate funding of academic research....it used to be around 7 percent...but has really grown. I first realized this when researching US pharmaceutical woes....huge investments made by pharm industry to research and a lot of times very risky investments..not paying off for many years (remember Martha Stewart case?)(alshtouhg my memory has faded, this may have been research conducted via industry itself, skimming scientists from previous academic posts). Anyway, corporate funding of academic research is most heavily applied in medicine, biology, chemistry, and engineering.

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: there's a firefly in my brain	Geo	01/13/06 10:08:42am

Re: there's a firefly in my brain	pjk	01/13/06 12:24:23pm
Re: there's a firefly in my brain -- Geo, 01/13/06 1:27:53pm Re: there's a firefly in my brain -- krz, 01/13/06 5:55:34pm Re: there's a firefly in my brain -- Geo, 01/13/06 3:13:22pm Re: my fly brain -- pjk, 01/13/06 4:11:12pm public spending and retirement systems -- krz, 01/13/06 6:20:28pm Re: my fly brain -- Geo, 01/14/06 1:09:21pm genentechechechechechech -- pa, 01/13/06 9:03:15pm Re: genentechechechechechech -- krz, 01/13/06 9:39:26pm intellectual ownership -- pa, 01/14/06 8:46:36am Re: intellectual ownership -- krz, 01/14/06 8:51:34am