Title: Recommended Principles to Guide Academy-Industry Relationships /
Authors: American Association of University Professors.
Publisher: American Association of University Professors ;
Year: 2014
Subjects: Academic freedom.; Business and education Moral and ethical aspects Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Education, Higher Research Moral and ethical aspects Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Academic-industrial collaboration United States.; Business and education.; Universities and colleges.
Contents: Introduction. Why the AAUP is issuing this report -- Academic freedom: the relationship between individual faculty rights and the public interest -- Embracing diverse missions: a brief history of academy-industry relationships -- The growth of university-industry engagement: 1970 to the present -- What accounts for rising levels of academy-industry engagement? The Bayh-Dole Act, the Stanford v. Roche decision, and campus IP management -- Other factors driving academy-industry engagement -- Types of academy-industry research collaboration -- The benefits and compromises of academy-industry engagement -- Six risks of academy-industry engagement. Risk 1: Violations of academic freedom and researcher autonomy -- Risk 2: Restricted access to data and suppression of negative results -- Risk 3: Threats to open science, knowledge sharing, and timely publication -- Risk 4: Financial conflicts of interest (FCOI) -- Risk 5: Research bias and unreliability associated with corporate funding -- Risk 6: The absence of legal protections to safeguard research integrity and academic freedom in industry-sponsored research contracts -- Detailed discussion of the 56 recommend principles. Part I. General principles to guide academy-industry relationships university-wide -- Part II. General principles for academic education and training -- Part III. General principles for management of intellectual property (IP) -- Part IV. General principles for management of conflicts of interest (COI) and financial conflicts of interest (FCOI) -- Part V. Targeted principles. Managing COI in the context of clinical care and human subject research -- Part VI. Targeted principles: strategic corporate alliances (SCAs) -- Part ViI. Targeted principles: Clinical medicine, clinical research, and industry sponsorship.