University-Business Partnerships

An excellent introduction to the issues—political, legal, social, and ethical—associated with this important phenomenon in contemporary academic life. . . . The book is quite even-handed. . . . An excellent study, clearly useful as a textbook or textbook supplement. -- Paul T. Durbin, University of Delaware
The book is a well-researched and balanced approach to evaluating the university-industry relationships that have arisen over the last two decades. The inclusion of a number of the critical primary source materials provides the reader with important resources for evaluating Bowie's interpretations. -- Martin Kenney, University of California, Davis
After tracing the evolution of the partnership and the growing role of federal and state government as promoters, Bowie provides a comprehensive overview of the problems with such arrangements that should be of concern to academics regardless of field. * Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy *
Bowie's University-Business Partnerships is valuable. . . . Bowie's essay carefully assesses the benefits and risks for universities of partnerships with business. Additionally, the essay contains considerable anecdotal detail illustrating risks gone wrong. -- Deborah A. DeMott, ACADEME