AFHVS 2017 presidential address The purpose-driven university: the role of university research in the era of science commercialization

作者：Glenna Leland L^*

来源：Agriculture and Human Values, 2017, 34(4): 1021-1031.

DOI：10.1007/s10460-017-9824-6

• Public research
• Commercial science
• Public interest
• Food and agricultural research and development

As efforts to commercialize university research outputs continue, critics charge that universities and university scientists are failing to live up to their public-interest purpose. In this paper, I discuss the distinctions between public-interest and private-interest research institutions and how commercialization of university science may be undermining the public interest. I then use Jurgen Habermas's concept of communicative action as the foundation for efforts to establish public spaces for ethical deliberation among scientists and university administrators. Such ethical deliberation is necessary to facilitate discussion on whether public-interest science should be the research university's primary purpose and what institutional rules and resources are needed to honor that purpose.

• 出版日期2017-12