Commercialization

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Summary of “Universities, governments and industry: Can the essential nature of universities survive the drive to commercialize?” by Simon N. Young Throughout the entry “Universities, governments and industry: Can the essential nature of universities survive the drive to commercialize?’’, the author Simon N. Young, speaks of how since the mid nineteen hundreds, university research has had much change. He speaks of positive changes such as more people attending universities to expand their knowledge, and then goes on to speak of negative changes such as industry and governments getting themselves involved within research. Having these governments and industries becoming involved in the research creates an atmosphere for universities to become more commercialized, therefore defocusing their research on the more needed, or…show more content…
Just about nine hundred years later, after World War II, research funds started to come into universities through government, and industry. According to Young, this funding has started to make university research become more and more commercialised, and he is led to believe that scientific research is now prioritized overtop of arts and social research. Although there is no longer any interference from the Roman Catholic Church within universities, we can relate the commercialization of the research that is currently being done, as that failure to acknowledge privileges that students and teachers held so many years ago in that feud in the year eleven hundred. To support his statements of commercialization, Young did some research on the established antidepressant treatment of “S-adenosylmethionine” or “SAMe” within the Society of Neuroscience. Searching up for the keyword ‘’antidepressant’’, he came up with one hundred and seventy nine results, whereas when he searched for the keyword ‘’S-adenosylmethionine”, only four results came up. This was the prime example that he was looking for. The Society of Neuroscience was pushing the use of
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