"It is the policy and objective of the Congress to promote collaboration between commercial concerns and nonprofit organizations, including universities."

- Public Law 65-517 (Bayh-Dole Act)


“Universities are not businesses. They are highly unusual institutions with missions and attributes unlike those of any other entity… Society depends on them to do much more than produce products at a fair price…. If these venerable institutions become too market-driven, and come to be regarded in too instrumental a way… they could lose the distinctive angle to the universe they need to retain if they are to function at their best”

- William Bowen, former president of Princeton


"Left to itself, the contemporary research university does not contain sufficient incentives to elicit all of the behaviors that society has a right to expect. In some respects, corporations, moved by pecuniary incentives, do a better job than universities of carrying out the tasks society has given them. The motives that inspire professors may be nobler than those that animate corporate leaders, but in some respects, at least, they have proved less effective. Professors who look down on business would do well to bear this point in mind before dismissing the ways of commerce as irrelevant to the academey."

- Derek Bok, former president of Harvard


"By the early 1990s, USC had become an institution that, as the Oscar Wilde jibe goes, knew the price of everything and the value of nothing. Some schools went so far as to alter their mission in order to generate revenues... Amid all the gamesmanship, there was no one at USC to speak for the academic commons. This was Runnymede come to the campus... USC was a textbook case of how not to do things."

- David Kirp, former dean at Berkeley

Introductory Memo

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