TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mody, Cyrus C. M
TI  - Instruments of Commerce and Knowledge: Probe Microscopy, 1980-2000
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12700
PY  - 2006
Y2  - November 2006
DO  - 10.3386/w12700
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12700
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12700.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Cyrus Mody
Center for Contemporary History and Policy
Chemical Heritage Foundation
315 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Tel: 215-873-8241
E-Mail: cmody@chemheritage.org
M1  - published as Cyrus C. M. Mody. "Instruments of Commerce and Knowledge: Probe Microscopy, 1980-2000," in Richard B. Freeman and Daniel Goroff, editors, "Science and Engineering Careers in the United States: An Analysis of Markets and Employment" University of Chicago Press (2009)

M3  - presented at "Science and Engineering Workforce Project (SEWP)", October 19-20, 2005
AB  - Longstanding debates about the role of the university in national culture and the global economy have entered a new phase in the past decade in most industrialized, and several industrializing, countries.  One important focus of this debate is corporate involvement in academic scientific research.  Proponents of the academic capitalism say that corporate involvement makes the university leaner, more agile, better able to respond to the needs of the day.  Critics say that corporate involvement leaves society without the independent, critical voices traditionally lodged in universities.  I argue that a science and technology studies perspective, using case studies of research communities, can push this debate in directions envisioned by neither proponents nor critics.  I use the development and commercialization of the scanning tunneling microscope and the atomic force microscope as an example of how research communities continually redraw the line between corporate and academic institutions.
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