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Bourke, Jaron; Weissman, Robert – Academe, 1990
Universities are compounding the problems created by faculty entrepreneurship by gaining an unprecedented financial interest in the prosperity of the biomedical industry. This interferes with the institutions' other functions of critiquing social policy, explaining technical matters, and performing research for publicly decided goals. The…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, College Faculty, College Role, Entrepreneurship