Commentary
Nature Nanotechnology 3, 60 - 62 (2008)
Published online: 27 January 2008 | doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.11
Reclaiming academia from post-academia
Philip Moriarty1
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Philip Moriarty is in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
e-mail: philip.moriarty@nottingham.ac.uk
Abstract
The increasing emphasis on commercialization and market forces in modern universities is fundamentally at odds with core academic principles. Publicly funded academics have an obligation to carry out science for the public good, and this responsibility is not compatible with the entrepreneurial ethos increasingly expected of university research by governments and funding agencies.
