Bringing the Marketplace into Science: On the Neoliberal Defense of the Commercialization of Scientific Research

Biddle, Justin B.

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“…One of the driving forces behind these changes has been the expansion of the ability of academic researchers to patent their inventions as a result of legislation like the Bayh‐Dole Act in the early 1980s (Biddle, ; Biddle, ; Brown, ; Irzık, ; Sterckx, ). Some critics, like John Ziman (), have argued that patent‐focused inquiry can result in less robust knowledge claims, which are useful only for achieving pragmatic results in applied contexts.…”

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“…Rarely, if ever, do we see a case study of scientific work done at Dow Chemicals inform a discussion about “core” philosophical topics like scientific explanation, confirmation, causation, or modeling. Yet despite its limited influence on philosophical discourse, industry accounts for roughly two thirds of all R&D funding in developed countries (OECD, ), and its influence is expanding to the public sector because of multiple changes to university and government policies over the past 40 years (Biddle, , ; Irzık, ; Krimsky, ; Mirowski, ; Slaughter & Rhoades, ; Sterckx, ; Washburn, ).…”

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The promise and perils of industry‐funded science

Holman

Elliott

2018

Philosophy Compass

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Private companies provide by far the most funding for scientific research and development. Nevertheless, relatively little attention has been paid to the dynamics of industry-funded research by philosophers of science. This paper addresses this gap by providing an overview of the major strengths and weaknesses of industry research funding, together with the existing recommendations for addressing the weaknesses. It is designed to provide a starting point for future philosophical work that explores the features of industry-funded research, avenues for addressing concerns, and strategies for making research funded by the private sector as fruitful as possible.

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The promise and perils of industry‐funded science

Holman

Elliott

2018

Philosophy Compass

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“…Rather, the kinds of science and innovation that get done are shaped by their funding context (Tyfield, 2012). The last few decades have been witness to the emergence of something scholars are calling ''neoliberal science and innovation'' (e.g., Abraham, 2007;Biddle, 2011;Mirowski, 2011). When scholars talk about neoliberal science and innovation, what they mean is science and innovation that are inherently market-oriented; driven by market priorities, logics, and expectations (Birch, 2006).…”

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Biobanks in Oral Health: Promises and Implications of Post-Neoliberal Science and Innovation

Birch

Chiappetta

Gürsoy

2016

OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology

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While biobanks are established explicitly as scientific infrastructures, they are de facto political-economic ones too. Many biobanks, particularly population-based biobanks, are framed under the rubric of the bio-economy as national political-economic assets that benefit domestic business, while national populations are framed as a natural resource whose genomics, proteomics, and related biological material and national health data can be exploited. We outline how many biobanks epitomize this 'neoliberal' form of science and innovation in which research is driven by market priorities (e.g., profit, shareholder value) underpinned by state or government policies. As both scientific and political-economic infrastructures, biobanks end up entangled in an array of problems associated with market-driven science and innovation. These include: profit trumping other considerations; rentiership trumping entrepreneurship; and applied research trumping basic research. As a result, there has been a push behind new forms of 'post-neoliberal' science and innovation strategies based on principles of openness and collaboration, especially in relation to biobanks. The proliferation of biobanks and the putative transition in both scientific practice and political economy from neoliberalism to post-neoliberalism demands fresh social scientific analyses, particularly as biobanks become further established in fields such as oral health and personalized dentistry. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first analysis of biobanks with a view to what we can anticipate from biobanks and distributed post-genomics global science in the current era of oral health biomarkers.

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“…Many philosophers of science argue that the emphasis on commercialization generally, and patenting in particular, is detrimental to both scientific and social progress (Biddle 2007;Brown 2008). More specifically, many have objected to patenting in science on two different grounds.…”

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“…See Biddle (2011) for a discussion of these decisions and for an examination of the political and economic theory underlying the emphasis on commercializing and privatizing the results of scientific research.…”

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Tragedy of the Anticommons? Intellectual Property and the Sharing of Scientific Information

Biddle¹

2012

Philos. of Sci.

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Bringing the Marketplace into Science: On the Neoliberal Defense of the Commercialization of Scientific Research

Cited by 12 publications

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The promise and perils of industry‐funded science

The promise and perils of industry‐funded science

Biobanks in Oral Health: Promises and Implications of Post-Neoliberal Science and Innovation

Tragedy of the Anticommons? Intellectual Property and the Sharing of Scientific Information

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