Overview

The Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program is Canada's flagship research funding initiative and a policy innovation that has been emulated by a number of other countries. The NCE program is historically significant in the political economy of Canadian research: established in 1988 by the Mulroney government, it was the first program to attach expectations of industry partnerships and commercial exploitation to funding for academic research. The program rests on dual goals of research excellence and commercial relevance and promotes a national research capacity that 'floats across' existing academic institutions and provincial jurisdictions. Janet Atkinson-Grosjean's Public Science, Private Interests is the first book-length study of NCEs, and offers an assessment of the long-term impact of the erasure between public institutions and private enterprise. Atkinson-Grosjean reveals not only the cultural and commercial shifts sought by policymakers, but also unintended consequences such as regional clustering, litism and exclusion, problems with social and fiscal accountability, tensions with host institutions, and goal displacement between science and commerce. This is a work of great importance to Canadian policy studies and particularly to science and medical research policy.

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Author:   Janet Atkinson-Grosjean
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.586kg
ISBN:  

9780802080059

ISBN 10:   0802080057
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   25 February 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES PREFACE ABBREVIATIONS Introduction Policy Context Outline of the Study Barriers to Access Overview of This Book 1 Two Divides Mapping the Divides 'Open Science' or 'Science That Overflows'? Summary: Understanding the Divides 2 Science Policy in Canada and the NCE Experiment Historical Influences on Canadian Science Policy The Evolution of the NCE Program Summary: The Implications of Policy Change 3 Configuring the Canadian Genetic Diseases Network The Power of One Managing the Network Spatial-Structural Dynamics Summary: The Limitations of Hegemony 4 Culture and Science 'A Nation of Colleagues' Network Science? Summary: The Durability of the Ephemeral 5 From Science to Commerce Understanding the Pipe Industry Partnerships Traversing the Pipe A Third Turn: Back to Basic(s) Summary: Marketization - From Public to Private 6 Adventures in the Nature of Trade Then and Now Localizing Cosmopolitans Merchants and Settlers Translation and Translational Research Hearing Voices Summary: Market Values and the Life Sciences 7 NCEs and the Public Interest Case Study: Conclusions and Implications Epilogue: Protecting the Public Interest Future Research APPENDIX A NCE PROGRAM: FUNDED NETWORKS, 1989-2005 APPENDIX B DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS NOTES REFERENCES INDEX

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Janet Atkinson-Grosjean is a research associate with the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology at Simon Fraser University and the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia.

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