Open AccessScience as a private matter. To the question of the commercialization of research and development
Author(s) -
V. A. Kupriyanov,
Светлана Александровна Душина
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
upravlenie naukoj: teoriâ i praktika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2686-827X
DOI - 10.19181/smtp.2020.2.3.3
Subject(s) - commercialization , ideology , sociology , work (physics) , point (geometry) , public relations , engineering ethics , political science , business , law , engineering , politics , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics
Basing on the investigations of the organization of modern science, the authors discuss the problem of commercialization of research and development. The aim of the article is to explicate the peculiarities of the commercial science. The authors show that contrary to the wide spread conception, commercial and applied science are not identical. Basing on the activity approach, the authors develop the idea that modern trends in commercialization of the research and development involve new conception of science as a private good, which is contrary to the dominating understanding of science as an activity directed to common good. The authors point out at the change in academic values forming under the influence of the principles peculiar to business. The first part of the article analyses the work of the contract research organizations and professional publication agencies and explicate the change of the structure of research activity within commercial science. The authors point out that the private interests directed at market efficiency of corporations is hidden behind the ideology of the new institutions (contract research organizations and publication agencies). The article notes that the borrowing of the given models of the organization of science in academic reforms in developing countries should be approached with care, taking into consideration the fact of their contrariness and imperfection.