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...have to wait long to hear them. In a panel discussion that included, among others, a Harvard Medical School professor and a venture capitalist, the participants spoke of the difficulty of straddling the academic and corporate worlds. Usually, being heavily involved with a start-up company means leaving academia. Even academics who hand off their work to corporations without getting involved in running a company face ethical issues. For example, academics may choose to withhold certain discoveries from their academic competitors if they need to get a patent first. The potential for a serious conflict of interest always lurks...
...this attitude that if she ever saw anyone talking down to the support staff, it was immediately a clue that this was not a kindred soul,” Coontz said. “This makes her a bit of an anomaly for an administrator in academia...
...addition to discussing the differences between academia and industry, panelists also addressed the need to prevent conflicts of interest...
Although many who have worked in academia such as Fineberg support open publication of research, some academics remain skittish. Moreover, the most serious threat to open scientific research comes not from the politicos in the White House but from the academics whose intellectual strafing allows restrictions to advance. In his new book Our Posthuman Future, political scientist Francis Fukuyama—who is also a member of the influential President’s Council on Bioethics—makes the case for regulating the manipulation of human genes and the widespread prescription of psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac...
...It’s a homecoming to be back in academia,” he said. “But now I’ll be able to combine my academic interests with the field work I did at the Ford Foundation...