Background. Corporate interests have the potential to influence public debate and
policymaking by influencing the research agenda, namely the initial step in conducting …

To combat climate change and hunger, a number of governments, foundations and aid
agencies have called for a 'New Green Revolution'. Such calls obfuscate the dynamics of the …

This paper conducts a unique study using the university patent as the unit of analysis to
determine how individual and institutional factors affect the likelihood that a patent will be …

As interest in university science commercialization has expanded, researchers have
increasingly acknowledged the elemental role of individual academic scientists in …

This paper studies the impact of university-industry collaboration on academic research
output. We analyze the channels through which the degree of industry collaboration may be …

Over the past several decades, the private sector has assumed a larger role in developing
improved technology for food and agriculture. Private companies fund nearly all food …

Using documents from a lawsuit filed against the agricultural chemical and biotechnology
firm Monsanto (now Bayer), we document a private firm's efforts to distort the scientific peer …

Once upon a time, it was the lone scientist who achieved brilliant breakthroughs. No longer.
Today, science is done in teams of as many as hundreds of researchers who may be …

We examine the conceptions of science communication, especially in relation to “public
engagement with science”(PES), evident in the literature and websites of science research …

Engagement in proenvironmental behavior can be understood in part by considering how
individuals operate as members of social communities and are influenced by these …