Businesses provided $3.2 billion, or 5 percent, of American universities’ total research budgets in 2012, a portion that has been stable since the 1970s, according to the National Science Foundation. Such partnerships are unusually common at the UC system’s 10 campuses and three associated national laboratories, which lead discoveries in medicine, engineering and other fields… John M. Simpson, an advocate at the nonprofit Consumer Watchdog in Santa Monica, argued that the quest to monetize intellectual property may distract colleges from their original mission: producing knowledge for knowledge’s sake.

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by Stephanie M. Lee, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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