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Author(s) -
Silverman William A.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
paediatric and perinatal epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.667
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1365-3016
pISSN - 0269-5022
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-3016.2000.00221.x
Subject(s) - nobel laureate , secrecy , medicine , intellectual property , product (mathematics) , law , literature , political science , art , geometry , poetry , mathematics
Secrecy and rainmaking in medical research There is a culture shift under way. The universities’ central product – knowledge – used to be regarded as a ‘common good,’ but it is in the process of being reappraised as ‘intellectual property’ . . . which must be walled off. This balkanization of knowledge, packaged for sale, will alter our universities and weaken them. Nobel laureate John C. Polanyi 1