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Science 18 June 1999:
Vol. 284. no. 5422, p. 1905
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5422.1905a
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JAPAN:
Corporate Ties Still Off Limits for Academics

Dennis Normile

Efforts to form closer ties between industry and academe in Japan suffered a setback last week when government officials refused to bend a rule that prohibits university professors and other civil servants from holding positions with private companies. Observers see the National Personnel Agency's refusal to allow an economics professor to serve as an outside director of Sony Corp. as a setback to all academic researchers hoping to become involved in start-up companies or industrial collaborations derived from their work.

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