Research in the sociology of science has increasingly begun to acknowledge the role that
external influences play in shaping the boundaries and content of science. However, a …

In this paper, we present and apply a new framework–the Poles of Production for
Producers/Poles of Production for Users (PFP/PFU) model–to empirically study how one …

How does collaboration between academic research and industry shape science? This
article argues that companies' relative indifference to theory nudges their academic partners …

“The frontier of science” is a metaphor that has become ubiquitous in American rhetoric, from
its first appearance in the public address of early twentieth-century American intellectuals …

The theory of academic capitalism is used to explore US and EU marketization trajectories.
Comparisons are made along the following dimensions: creation and expansion of …

What factors affect a scientist's choice of research problem? Qualitative research in the
history and sociology of science suggests that this choice is patterned by an “essential …

Is a shift in intellectual property rights to universities the key instrument in increasing
commercialization of publicly funded research? How much can actually be learned from the …

Over the past decade, America's research universities have been accused, with increasing
frequency and passion, of a wide variety of sins. Universities do not devote enough attention …

Constrained by reductions in public funding, many United States universities have been
accepting large sums of money to perform research work sought by industrial investors. The …

Policies designed to promote the commercialization of university science have provoked
concern that basic and publicly accessible research may be neglected. Commercialization …