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Nature 452, 151 (13 March 2008) | doi:10.1038/452151c; Published online 12 March 2008

Open Innovation Challenges

How academic corporatism can lead to dictatorship

G. A. Clark1

  1. Department of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-2402, USA

Michael Crow's Book Review of Daniel Greenberg's Science for Sale (Nature 449, 405; 2007) calls for a response because it reflects a worsening philosophical divide in US academia between those who regard universities as analogous to corporations and think they should be run that way (mostly career administrators) and those who see universities as primarily intellectual enterprises governed by academic core values (mostly line faculty). Asserting that the university is an idea — not an ideal or an ideology — Crow, who is president of Arizona State University, plays down or ignores most of the dangerous consequences of campus capitalism.

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