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Science 22 August 2003:
Vol. 301. no. 5636, pp. 1050 - 1051
DOI: 10.1126/science.1087592
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HIGHER EDUCATION:
On Over-Weighting the Bottom Line

A review by David Baltimore

Universities in the Marketplace The Commercialization of Higher Education
Derek Bok
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2003. 247 pp. $22.95, £15.95. ISBN 0-691-11412-9.

Bok discusses what he sees as the inherent dangers that arise when universities undertake money-making ventures with corporations.
The reviewer is president of the California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 204-31, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. E-mail: baltimo{at}caltech.edu

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
The Contract Research Organization and the Commercialization of Scientific Research.
P. Mirowski and R. Van Horn (2005)
Social Studies of Science 35, 503-548
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