Academic–Industrial Relationships in the Life Sciences

Blumenthal, David

doi:10.1056/nejmhpr035460

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“…Lately there has been increasing concern in academic literature about the growing ties between industry and the academic research community [1][2][3][4][5][6]. For example, there is emerging evidence that these relationships can increase information withholding among researchers [7][8][9][10], skew the direction of research results toward findings supportive of industry sponsors [8,9,11], alter the tone of popular representations of research [12] and, perhaps most importantly, erode public trust in the research and researcher [13,14].…”

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Patents, Commercialization and the Canadian Stem Cell Research Community

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Aims: There has been a great deal of discussion in relevant literature on the adverse impact of commercialization agendas and the patenting regime on research in emerging fields. We sought to assess the perceived impact of these factors on the stem cell research community in Canada. Materials & methods: We surveyed 283 researchers from Canada’s Stem Cell Network using a survey instrument informed by relevant literature and systematic consultations with Canadian and international regulators, stem cell researchers and research ethics experts designed to identify pressing ethical, legal and social issues relevant to stem cell research. A total of 108 researchers responded to the survey. Results & conclusions: Results indicate that although many researchers believe that patents may have adverse effects on research, very few have encountered any such effects in practice. The researchers admitted to withholding data to protect patenting opportunities, while also maintaining that patents did not contribute to publication delays. The pressure to commercialize their research was largely held to be reasonable by researchers.

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“…Possibilities to prevent harmful effects of the interactions between universities and firms exist and are relatively easy to be implemented for governments. Accordingly, policy makers should not legitimise a reduction in public support to academic basic research as a consequence of an increase in industry funding to universities, as frequently happens (e.g., see Blumenthal, 2003). Our results suggest that these two sources of university funding have different but complementary aims and address different needs.…”

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“…A brief overview on the historical evolution of UIRs in the USA seems to confirm this hypothesis. Blumenthal (2003) observed that a cut in US Government investments in basic research, as in the mid-1970s, led US universities to increasingly search for industry partnerships. Vice-versa, when public funding was widely available, such as was the case directly after World War II, relationships with industry were considered to be less crucial.…”

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R&D and knowledge dynamics in university-industry relationships in biotech and pharmaceuticals: an agent-based model

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Pyka²,

Scholz³

2014

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Abstract:In the last two decades, university-industry relationships have played an outstanding role in shaping innovation activities in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Nevertheless, there still is an intensive and open debate concerning their short and long term effects on the research system in life sciences. This work introduces a new way to analyse university-industry relationships (UIRs) which makes use of an agent-based simulation model. We analyse knowledge interactions among heterogeneous actors and we show that: 1) universities tend to shift from a basic to an applied research orientation as a consequence of relationships with industry; 2) universities' innovative capabilities benefit from industry financial resources but not so much from cognitive resources of the companies; 3) biotech companies' innovative capabilities largely benefit from knowledge interaction with universities; 4) adequate policies in terms of public basic research funding can counteract the negative effects of UIRs on university research orientation.Keywords: university-industry relationships; UIRs; knowledge dynamics; agent-based modelling; ABM; university patenting; technology transfer; biotech; biotechnology; pharmaceuticals; basic research funding policies.Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Triulzi, G., Pyka, A. and Scholz, R. (2014) This paper is a revised and expanded version of a paper entitled 'R&D and knowledge dynamics in university-industry relationships in biotech and pharmaceuticals: an agent-based model' presented at 6th

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“…interest in the outcome of the research (Albee, 2002;Blumenthal, 2003;Gorner, 2000;Mello, Clarridge, & Studdert, 2005;Mundy & Marcus, 2000;Vedantam, 2001). …”

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