Article ID: CBB611406325

Beyond Commercialization: Science, Higher Education and the Culture of Neoliberalism (2013)

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Since the 1980s, scholars and others have been engaged in a lively debate about the virtues and dangers of mingling commerce with university science. In this paper, we contend that the commercialization of academic science, and higher education more broadly, are best understood as pieces of a larger story. We use two cases of institutional change at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to shed light on the implications of neoliberalism for public research universities in the United States. We conclude that instead of neoliberalization being a timely strategy for the specific fiscal and other problems facing public universities today, it has become an omnibus solution available to be employed when any opportunity arises and, in fact, helps to define the “problems” of the university in the first place.

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Article Gürol Irzik (2013) Introduction: Commercialization of Academic Science and a New Agenda for Science Education. Science and Education (pp. 2375-2384). unapi

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Article Daniel Lee Kleinman; Noah Weeth Feinstein; Greg Downey (2013) Erratum to: Beyond Commercialization: Science, Higher Education and the Culture of Neoliberalism. Science and Education (pp. 2403-2403). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Beddeleem, Martin
Anja Timmermann
Maher, Max
Doyle-Raso, John
Dell'Oro, Giorgio
Haushofer, Lisa
Concepts
Commercialization
Science and economics
Science and politics
Neoliberalism
Commerce
Universities and colleges
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Italy
Germany
Europe
Uganda
Institutions
Technische Hochschule Berlin Charlottenburg
Olivetti S.p.A (Firm)
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