Commercializing science: nineteenth- and ...
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Article dans une revue scientifique
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Title :
Commercializing science: nineteenth- and twentieth-century academic scientists as consultants, patentees, and entrepreneurs
Author(s) :
Mercelis, Joris [Auteur]
Galvez-Behar, Gabriel [Auteur]
Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHiS) - UMR 8529
Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHiS) - UMR 8529 [IRHiS]
Guagnini, Anna [Auteur]
Galvez-Behar, Gabriel [Auteur]

Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHiS) - UMR 8529
Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHiS) - UMR 8529 [IRHiS]
Guagnini, Anna [Auteur]
Journal title :
History and Technology
Volume number :
33
Pages :
4-22
Publisher :
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Publication date :
2017
ISSN :
0734-1512
English keyword(s) :
Academic consulting
Academic entrepreneurship
Regimes of knowledge production and diffusion
Science commercialization
Academic patenting
Academic entrepreneurship
Regimes of knowledge production and diffusion
Science commercialization
Academic patenting
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Histoire
English abstract : [en]
The collection of essays introduced in this article contributes to the debate on the commercialization of academic science by shifting the focus from institutional developments meant to foster university technology transfer ...
Show more >The collection of essays introduced in this article contributes to the debate on the commercialization of academic science by shifting the focus from institutional developments meant to foster university technology transfer to the actions of individual scientists. Instead of searching for the origins of the ‘entrepreneurial university,’ this special issue examines the personal involvement of academic physicists, engineers, photographic scientists, and molecular biologists in three types of commercial activity: consulting, patenting, and full-blown business entrepreneurship. The authors investigate how this diverse group of teachers and researchers perceived their institutional and professional environments, their career prospects, the commercial value of their knowledge and reputation, and their ability to exploit these assets. By documenting academic scientists’ response to market opportunities, the articles suggest that, already in the decades around 1900, commercial work was widespread and, in some cases, integral to academics’ teaching and research activity.Show less >
Show more >The collection of essays introduced in this article contributes to the debate on the commercialization of academic science by shifting the focus from institutional developments meant to foster university technology transfer to the actions of individual scientists. Instead of searching for the origins of the ‘entrepreneurial university,’ this special issue examines the personal involvement of academic physicists, engineers, photographic scientists, and molecular biologists in three types of commercial activity: consulting, patenting, and full-blown business entrepreneurship. The authors investigate how this diverse group of teachers and researchers perceived their institutional and professional environments, their career prospects, the commercial value of their knowledge and reputation, and their ability to exploit these assets. By documenting academic scientists’ response to market opportunities, the articles suggest that, already in the decades around 1900, commercial work was widespread and, in some cases, integral to academics’ teaching and research activity.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Audience :
Internationale
Popular science :
Non
Administrative institution(s) :
Université de Lille
CNRS
CNRS
Submission date :
2019-02-12T17:00:31Z
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