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Powers, Joshua B.; Campbell, Eric G. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2009
In 1907, Frederick Cottrell, professor of chemistry at the University of California-Berkeley and father of the modern academic patent, worried that if universities became too directly involved in patenting and licensing operations, their thirst for profits could lead to the erosion of the openness necessary for academic science to flourish. For…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Universities, School Business Relationship, Intellectual Property
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Dooris, Michael J.; Fairweather, James S. – Review of Higher Education, 1994
A study of three biotechnology programs at research universities compared program types (institute, center, or program/department) as effective environments for technology transfer. Results suggest that the institute and center program types influence faculty less than traditional structures such as academic departments and that structure is in…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Administrative Organization, Biotechnology, College Faculty