Article ID: CBB100324701

Commercializing academic knowledge and reputation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: photography and beyond (2017)

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Mercelis, Joris (Author)


History and Technology
Volume: 33
Issue: 1
Pages: 23-52


Publication Date: 2017
Edition Details: Special Issue: Commercializing Science: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Academic Scientists as Consultants, Patentees, and Entrepreneurs
Language: English

This article argues that Hermann Vogel (1834–1898), the head of the photochemical laboratory of the Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg, was not exceptional in pursuing business undertakings throughout his academic career. After highlighting the involvement of higher education employees of various disciplines and institutions in the photographic industry as consultants, patentees, and entrepreneurs, I more closely examine the commercial activities of Vogel and those of Adolf Miethe (1862–1927), Vogel’s successor in Berlin. This analysis points to a notable continuity through time. It shows that these scientists’ decades-long engagement in commercial work was not materially affected by (1) their salary levels, (2) the emergence of industrial research in the photographic and optical industries, and (3) changes in the amount of government funding for scientific research. In addition, it reveals that the Prussian education ministry maintained a strong focus on reputational risks in handling complaints concerning commercial activities of these academics.

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Authors & Contributors
Yi, Doogab
Guagnini, Anna
Tverytnykova, Elena
Christian Ebhardt
Gutnyk, Maryna
Collier, Alan J.
Concepts
Commercialization
Universities and colleges
Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship
Photography
Research and development (R&D)
Technology transfer
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Germany
South Korea
United States
Great Britain
England
Ukraine
Institutions
Biogen, Inc.
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Stanford University
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