A personal perspective on the selling of academia / Donald G. Stein -- College Sports, Inc. / Murray Sperber -- The benefits and cost of commercialization of the academy / Derek Bok -- Increased commercialization of the academy following the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 / Mary Good -- Delicate balance...

1. Introduction: People, tensions and impact in university interactions -- 2. PhDs with industry partners – assessing collaboration and topic distribution using a text mining methodology -- 3. The heterogeneous impact of academic patent characteristics on firms’ economic performance -- 4....

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