@article{24652ef35c1047abbfd6a6ddfe5091cd,
title = "Constructing {"}Disinterested{"} academic science: Relational work in university-industry research collaborations",
abstract = "This article analyzes how exchange participants in university-industry agricultural biotechnology research collaborations manage and create differences between the academy and industry with regard to the open dissemination and commercialization of scientific knowledge. Our focus is on the constitutive relations that define the boundary between academic and commercial science. We identify a particular {"}relational package{"} that formalizes and standardizes exchanges of money from industry for privileged access to university research discoveries. Our analysis of academic scientists' justificatory narratives about their patenting decisions challenges the oft-made assertion that academic patenting on its face should be taken as evidence of a blurred institutional boundary between academic and commercial science.",
keywords = "Agricultural biotechnology, Institutional isomorphism, Relational work, Social construction of scientific knowledge, University-industry relationships",
author = "Dina Biscotti and Lacy, {William B.} and Glenna, {Leland L.} and Rick Welsh",
note = "Funding Information: Similarly, our interview data reveal that our university respondents typically frame competitive grants from federal agencies, such as the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as essential for university scientists to do their work. In contrast, our respondents often highlight the flexible nature of industry funding and its ease of use for nonessential expenditures, such as sending graduate students to academic conferences, purchasing new, expensive equipment, or paying for end-of-the- year departmental parties. We argue that this reported earmarking is a way in which academic scientists claim a lack of dependence on research funding from industry. Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded under the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems Program of the United States Department of Agriculture{\textquoteright}s Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service under Agreement No. 2001-52100-11217. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Copyright: Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2012",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1177/0032329212441601",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "40",
pages = "273--308",
journal = "Politics and Society",
issn = "0032-3292",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "2",
}