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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(2):400-402; doi:10.1093/es/khn030
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Alan P. Rudy et al. Universities in the Age of Corporate Science: The UC Berkeley-Novartis Controversy
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2007. xiv + 236 pp. ISBN 1-59213-533-1, $54.50 (cloth)
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In December 2001, a team of sociologists from Michigan State University (MSU) was hired by the Academic Senate of the University of California-Berkeley (UCB) to review the process by which UCB's College of Natural Resources negotiated and implemented a five-year research funding relationship, starting in 1998, with the Swiss chemical giant Novartis. This extraordinary step reflected the perception among the agreement's critics in the university and their external allies that it threatened the integrity of academic science. This book summarizes the findings of the MSU team and presents their
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