Healthy Skepticism Library item: 17893

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Publication type: Journal Article

Moses H 3rd, Braunwald E, Martin JB, Thier SO.
Collaborating with industry--choices for the academic medical center.
N Engl J Med 2002 Oct 24; 347:(17):1371-5
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/347/17/1371

Abstract:

The relationships between academic institutions and private companies are strengthening. The decision of several large pharmaceutical companies, and many biotechnology companies, to build major new laboratories near U.S., European, and Asian universities is just one example of the growing commercial value of academic innovation in biomedicine and the talent that produces it. Individual faculty members and universities in the United States and other countries have increasingly strong financial and nonfinancial incentives to start new companies and to participate directly in the development of drugs, devices, and diagnostic tests.1nnMany negative implications of this trend have been recognized. Articles in the . . .

Keywords:
* Academic Medical Centers/organization & administration* * Academic Medical Centers/standards * Conflict of Interest* * Drug Industry/organization & administration* * Drug Industry/standards * Faculty, Medical * Interinstitutional Relations* * Research Support as Topic/standards* * United States