Reclaiming Academia from Post-academia

Moriarty, Philip

Abstract

Post-academic science, driven as it is by commercialisation and market forces, is fundamentally at odds with core academic principles. Publicly-funded academics have an obligation to carry out science for the public good, a responsibility which is incompatible with the entrepreneurial ethos increasingly expected of university research by funding agencies.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Feb 1, 2008
• Deposit Date: May 19, 2008
• Publicly Available Date: May 19, 2008
• Journal: Nature Nanotechnology
• Print ISSN: 1748-3387
• Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 3
• Keywords: academic principles; commercialisation; post-academia; corruption
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1015360
• Publisher URL: http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v3/n2/abs/nnano.2008.11.html;jsessionid=AE68F69044F5EBA6BA9234E457ED2F54
• Related Public URLs: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/research/nano