Reconsidering Renormalization: Stability and Change in 20th-Century Views on University Patents.  

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Metlay, Grischa

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Studies of Science vol. 36 no. 4 (Aug. 2006), page 565.
Topik: academic capitalism; Bayh–Dole; intellectual property; renormalization; technology transfer
Fulltext: 565.pdf (239.82KB)

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Contemporary polemics and scholarship tend to portray post-1980 research universities as exotic, abnormal, or ‘new’ because they embrace private intellectual property. This paper examines this sense of ‘newness’ by comparing two discourses – the university patent policy debates of 1910–39 and the Bayh–Dole debates of 1976–80 – and focuses on the interpretive flexibility of four institutions or tropes: ‘intellectual property’, ‘the university’, ‘the university inventor’, and ‘the public interest’. I argue that ‘intellectual property’ meant roughly the same thing in 1940 and 1980. However, ‘the university’ and ‘the university inventor’ changed subtly to accommodate a dramatic shift in the meaning of ‘the public interest’, which (by 1980) reflected the notion of a nationalized economy and a concern with federal deregulation. This suggests that the ‘newness’ of the contemporary research university has little to do with Merton’s norm of communism.

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