Is commercialization the new status symbol for academic scientists?

(University of Nevada, Reno) David R. Johnson, a sociologist of work and organizations, spent eight years researching what the emergence of a profit motive in the production of knowledge means for the work of academic scientists. His new book examines the intersection of science and the market. 'As federal funding for research stagnates or declines, the message to scientists is to look somewhere else -- the market.'

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