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Science 2 May 1997:
Vol. 276. no. 5313, pp. 761 - 762
DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5313.761
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Policy Forum

Beating Scientists into Plowshares

C. G. Kurland

Industry is successfully eroding political confidence in a well-proven division of labor in science. Formerly, most long-term basic research was carried out at universities, and most short-term product development was done at commercial sites. Now, Industry is trying to take command of certain areas of basic research at universities in order to redirect their efforts toward Industry's short-term agenda. Here, Charles Kurland discusses aspects of this policy shift.

The author is in the Department of Molecular Biology, BMC, Box 590, S-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden. E-mail: chuck{at}xray.bmc.uu.se

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