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The Center for American Progress, a comprehensive analysis and independent expert review the implications of the study confirmed $ 833 million in corporate finance from the major oil companies for energy research in the universities over the past decade. The report examines the last 10 between universities and industry agreements that involve up to 43 companies, 13 Universities pilot, and two federal research labs.
Major oil companies go to college: an analysis of 10 contracts research cooperation between leading companies in the energy and the major American universities to explore a growing phenomenon of academic partnerships to companies in the universities, and the results show why everyone should be concerned. These partnerships are likely only to proliferate and expand, how universities knowledge management for the public good – in particular, research that have significant ramifications on how to deal with the climate crisis – must be addressed.
Before Congress releases billions of dollars in federal funding for research and development in alternative and renewable energy and energy efficiency through such partnerships between the public and private sectors, and should take a closer look at the findings of the report of the Common Agricultural Policy and its recommendations.
Report of the Common Agricultural Policy is the first independent analysis of the partnership agreements between universities, industry research and development sector of energy. University research has traditionally been disinterested and designed to serve the public good, but growth in this industry partnerships questioned their interests (or bottom line) that really serves the scientific research.
The report raises some very important questions that have not been raised about the nature of agreements between universities and industry for energy research. Why oil companies are already very profitable and companies turning to U.S. universities to perform their research and commercial development (R & D) instead of doing the work itself? Why, in contrast, U.S. universities are opening their doors to the big oil companies? What does it mean when the dollars for research funding comes from big oil companies? Does science suffer as a result of corporate influence and control?
Jennifer Washburn, author of the report, is deeply concerned about the ability of American universities to protect academic and public interest jobs when negotiating contracts with major oil companies for research. Many of the contracts leave the door open to impose serious restrictions on academic freedom and the independence of research, and the granting of the big oil companies too much control. And that control is only getting bigger.
Although only 6 percent of the research centers and universities and funded by the industry, and the establishment of companies for the campus is on the rise. United States Government has a growing preference for the allocation of federal research and development through grant funds matching companies and other arrangements for sharing costs of research and cooperative, and this means that the private sector now directly affects anywhere from 20 to 25 percent of the funding of university research.
So much for the idea of the ivory towers of academia – it seems far more likely to refer to the corporate towers.
The report shows that:
1. In nine of the 10 agreements in energy research, and the failure of the university partners to retain control of majority of the academic department in charge of the central body guiding the alliance between the university and industry. Made four of 10 industry providers full control of government.
2. Allows companies sponsor eight agreements 10 (s) to control the full evaluation and selection of faculty research proposals in each session new grants.
3. Any of the agreements required 10 college research proposals for evaluation and grant funding on the basis of independent experts to peer review, and traditional (and standard) way to make scientific research grants fairly and impartially.
4. Made nine of 10 agreements of protection against any financial conflicts of interest related to the Alliance of jobs in the area of research. None of these agreements specifically that members of the committee charged with evaluation and selection of faculty research proposals should be neutral, and can finance companies not to award themselves.
Climate of anxiety and turmoil
Involved major oil companies and lobby their army at the Battle of several millions of dollars to indicate that climate legislation will be devastating to the American people (not to mention the line of major oil companies at the bottom). Finally, whenever the implementation of a comprehensive climate and energy legislation, however, create a large portion of the funds is likely to be aimed at efficiency and clean energy research and development carried out by academic experts in U.S. universities. Will the big oil companies have an interest in it. If that’s not a conflict of interest, and I’m not sure what it is.
We may wonder why not even bother the big oil companies in the field of alternative energy. Definitely clean energy research allows energy companies to more general picture of the project pro-environmental. These partnerships give credibility to the University of the big oil companies because they get to ride on the coat tails of the prestige and confidence that we give to academic institutions.
If there is not much more than greenwash, and redirect research and development dollar industry important to American universities. They complete the search within the academic institutions where the work is received with more credibility. Now the vast majority of academic finance companies that went to “alternative energy research” (especially biofuels), and this shift in the allocation of resources the industry has the potential to impact heavily on the research culture in this new arena of energy.
More cause for concern
Report of the Common Agricultural Policy asks whether the partnership agreements between universities and industry distinguish sufficiently “scientific research” from “research companies to rent.” Disturbing, in eight of the ten agreements, is the sponsor and the industry is not the academic institution that sets the research agenda. Through the identification of research questions will be asked what, almost every sponsor exercise some influence on the academic research institutions. The most troubling still, in nearly half of the agreements, and industry providers to obtain a complete set of the agenda at each session of the new grants, and thus control and management within the very limits of the search.
Although the report found that the protection of the fundamental right of the university for publication in a number of agreements, there were long delays companies that can delay the dissemination of scientific findings. Standard practice recommends no more delay of 60 days to publish the results. In three of the agreements, there is a delay 210 days (Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels), and delay for one year (an agreement with Chevron, and the maximum delay in publication, and leaving the door open to an infinite delay the deployment of a pivotal Stanford Research).
Examiners found that most of the independent legal agreements gave the company control of many of the commercial rights to research, giving industry sponsors of the trade monopoly control of alliances in the results of sponsored research. The report also found weak protection for academic use and sharing, and found that 9 of 10 agreements failed to discuss the management of financial conflicts of interest.
The border between academic research and commercial interest is clear, and it is useful to explore what are the implications of this in more detail, especially when the risks are too great. The report also notes, “There is an urgent need for academics and independent experts to measure and interpret today’s complex problems of global warming, and detection techniques for a new leader, and to provide impartial advice and expertise to public agencies and the Government on effective public policy.”
As the direction of the impact of the energy industry in research centers and universities are likely to continue, and there is a need to assess the capacity of universities to continue to produce a credible, independent research in these important areas. We saw what happened when he began buying large tobacco science and scientific expertise, and research in the field of energy might turn out to be no different.