Managing the Academic-Industrial Complex

The academic-industrial complex: a clash of two cultures?

Managing academic research.

Over the past few decades, there have been some profound changes made to the way that academic research is managed. i recall a former, rather auto­ cratic, professor’s approach to the subject; “i take the responsibility, i make the decisions.” under his directorship, his department became world renowned, demon strating that this approach is not neces sarily wrong, but it represents an extreme i...

Academic-industrial relationships.

In conclusion, it is obvious that the delivery system for medical care is changing much faster than anticipated. Technology is the agent in this process and economics is both the driving and the limiting force: driving because it is the impetus to change the sites of medical practice, limiting because of the constrained number of dollars to allocate to technology acquisition and operation. As w...

Academic research and industrial innovation

The purpose of this study is to estimate the extent to which technological innovations in various industries have been based on recent academic research, and the time lags between the investment in recent academic research projects and the industrial utilization of their findings. Because no attempt (to my knowledge) has been made to estimate the social rate of return from academic research, ’ ...

The Military Industrial Complex

This paper reviews the origin and theoretical foundation of the concept MilitaryIndustrial Complex and explains the key issues involved in the literature on the MIC in the Cold war context. It then considers the implications for the MIC of some main post-Cold War developments, with particular emphasis on the arms industry, its structure and effects. It then assesses the degree to which the end ...