Academic capitalism in the Pasteur’s quadrant

Mendoza, Pilar

doi:10.1080/03098770903026925

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“…For instance, Mars et al (2008, p. 642) suggest the need for the production of local case studies of universities and the different ways they operate within the new knowledge/learning regime. If the work to date has insufficiently taken into account the heterogeneity of universities and the variation between disciplines and faculties in their response to academic capitalism, this may in itself account for the contradictory research findings about the prevalence of academic capitalism (Mendoza, 2009). Additionally, if little attention has been given to areas within the university that are not involved in patenting and licensing but may nevertheless be impacted by market processes -such as the humanities and social sciences -we may have developed an insufficiently inclusive theory about the role of the market in the academy.…”

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“…Questions have been raised about the effectiveness of efforts within the natural sciences and engineering to licence and patent university discoveries (e.g., Mars, Slaughter, & Rhoades, 2008;Powers & Campbell, 2011;Thursby & Thursby, 2011), and about the extent to which there has been a decline in publishing given the ongoing encouragement for academics to patent their discoveries (Mendoza, 2009;Mendoza & Berger, 2008). Others have suggested that commercialisation has not been extensive and is uneven, having a much greater impact on some faculties (Mars et al, 2008;Szelényi & Bresonis, 2014).…”

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Practices of conformity and resistance in the marketisation of the academy: Bourdieu, professionalism and academic capitalism

Collyer

2014

Critical Studies in Education

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The paper reports on an empirical study based on qualitative interviews with staff from four Australian universities. These universities are shown to be undergoing significant social change as processes of marketisation impact on the everyday practices of academic workers. The universities are analysed as sites of contestation between the new professional managers and the established academic profession over the control of the conditions of work, the production of expert knowledge and the worksite itself. The theory of academic capitalism is examined, and the relevance of Bourdieu's work for the analysis of a university sector in a context of marketisation is assessed. Bourdieu's interlinked concepts of capital, habitus and the field are employed to investigate the nature of the contestation, revealing a dynamic process in which academics innovatively respond to threats to reduce their autonomy, to increased levels of surveillance and other constraints on practice. In addition, the study illustrates the processes through which actors within the sector, through acts of both conformity and resistance, contribute collectively to the growth of academic capitalism in the neoliberal university.

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Practices of conformity and resistance in the marketisation of the academy: Bourdieu, professionalism and academic capitalism

Collyer

2014

Critical Studies in Education

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“…The type of research that an academic engages may also assist in this transformation, whereby academic scientists doing more applied science may find it easier to negotiate boundaries, while academic scientists doing more basic, theoretical science may have fewer reasons to do so. Academic scientists working in research fields that are closer to the marketplace have more incentives to engage in boundary spanning behaviour than do scientists whose research product has weaker commercial application (Colyvas & Powell, 2006;Mendoza, 2009). Academic scientists that have established strong forms of engagement with private industry may be more likely to pursue research commercialisation in that they are in position to better exploit the social capital they have acquired through these relationships (Perkmann, Tartari, et.…”

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Managing Knowledge and Identity across the Boundary of Academic and Commercial Science

Rondeau

Dillon

Mansour

et al. 2022

ECIE

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In the last few decades, institutions of higher learning are being transformed from ivory towers to become engines of regional and national economic development and ‘knowledge businesses’ increasingly focused on producing commercial products for private industry. The role of academics is rapidly shifting as many in the professoriate are becoming ‘captured’ by an ethos of commercialization as they rush to bring the product of their research to the marketplace. Critics of the entrepreneurial paradigm see academics as promoters as well as victims of commercialisation who internalize the pursuit of profit and value of money under the academic capitalist knowledge regime. While some academic researchers have enthusiastically embraced the transformation in the relationship between science and business, and between the academy and industry, many remain firmly committed to academic science, disinterested in pursuing commercial opportunities. Yet, others choose a middle ground and straddle the academic and commercial boundary. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the role of identity to influence how academic scientists manage the boundary between the world of academic science and commercial science. Drawing from a large sample of Canadian university academic researchers in the applied sciences (n=379), four distinct categories of academic scientists are identified: Type I: Traditional academics who view the realm of academic science and commercial science as distinct and choose to position themselves strictly as academic scientists; Type II: Pragmatic academic hybrids who view academic and commercial science as distinct but decide to strategically pursue industrial links to acquire resources that support their research; Type III: Collaborative academic hybrids who believe in the paramountcy of academic and industry collaborations for the advancement of science; and Type IV: Academic entrepreneurs who abide in the fundamental importance of academic-industry links for application and for commercial exploitation. Results suggest that our researcher categories are further differentiated with respect to the strength of their collaborations with industry, their program of research, the extent of their industry experience, the degree of financial support they receive from industry, the size of their research laboratory, and by their scientific publications and the number of patents and licenses they hold from their research.

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“…They concluded that industry funding positively affects publication output at lower funding levels, and negatively affects publication output at higher funding levels. Mendoza (2009), in her analysis and critique of academic capitalism literature, provides a good reason why the literature on the impacts of industry funded research on faculty publication output seem to provide mixed results. She argues that the literature "fails to acknowledge for contextual differences, which results in an oversimplification of the effects of industry-academia collaborations" (2009, p. 301).…”

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Industry Funded Research Impacts on Engineering Faculty’s Research Experiences: A Review and Synthesis of the Literature

Holloway¹,

Oakes²

2017 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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As Director, he was in charge of the building and implementation of the Ideas to Innovation (i2i) Laboratory, which opened in August 2008 and houses classrooms and laboratories used by the 2000 students in Purdue's First-Year Engineering Program. He oversaw the daily operation of the i2i lab, and was responsible for the personnel, logistics, and technology used in the classroom and labs. Eric also helped build and directed the College of Engineering sponsored Artisan and Fabrication Lab (AFL), which houses a machine shop, carpentry shop, and a prototyping lab used by all students in the College of Engineering for project work. In 2009, he received a New Employee Staff Award of Excellence from the College of Engineering for his work in launching the i2i lab. Eric has served as the university representative on the Haas Technical Education Council, which is committed to developing manufacturing expertise at the high school, trade school, and university level. He received a BSEE from Purdue University in 1992. He has over 15 years of industrial experience, specializing in manufacturing and electronic controls, for which he holds 3 patents. Eric's industrial experience includes positions at Toyota, Cummins, Woodward, and TRW Automotive. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Engineering Education from Purdue, with an expected graduation date of 2020.

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Academic capitalism in the Pasteur’s quadrant

Cited by 14 publications

References 29 publications

Practices of conformity and resistance in the marketisation of the academy: Bourdieu, professionalism and academic capitalism

Practices of conformity and resistance in the marketisation of the academy: Bourdieu, professionalism and academic capitalism

Managing Knowledge and Identity across the Boundary of Academic and Commercial Science

Industry Funded Research Impacts on Engineering Faculty’s Research Experiences: A Review and Synthesis of the Literature

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