Agricultural biotechnology and university-industry research relationships: Views of university scientists and administrators and industry

摘要

According to Rick Welsh—based on a recently completed study—industry funding generally brings modestly less basic and more excludable (e.g. patentable) research than does NSF or NIH funding. Industry is wary of the decline in the level of basic research at universities, but contributes to it through its funding relationships. This points to the importance to a number of parties of continuing to publicly fund basic research at universities