The growing salience of intellectual property (IP) rights has reconfigured US science, shifting
it from the formerly separate realms of university and commercial science to an increasingly …

Anytime Viridiana needs to clear her mind after reading what economists or science studies
scholars or presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS] …

In this special issue, we focus on the particular impacts of neoliberalism as a regime of
scientific management. Drawing on a wide range of studies from other fields, as well as the …

On the basis of survey responses from 507 academic biomedical researchers, we examine
the impact of patents on access to the knowledge and material inputs that are used in …

Like the US before it, Japan has adopted a series of policy initiatives designed to encourage
the commercialization of academic science. However, such initiatives may also adversely …

Dr Rimmer s book is a marvellous introduction to a crucial topic of our time. He writes
engagingly, provocatively and always with good humour. A highly technical and complex …

Numerous scholars have expressed concern over the growing" privatization of the scientific
commons" represented by the growth in academic patenting. Even before the Bayh-Dole Act …

In this paper, we study the licensing of standard-related patents among companies that
employ a two-level licensing model where (i) the aggregated value of technology in the end …

The responsibility to return “value” to those who support basic research is an obligatory part
of accepting funds to support the research. This reality should, but now does not, impact …

The impact of commercialization and patenting pressure on genomics research is still a topic
of considerable debate in academic, policy and popular literature. We interviewed genomic …