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Discusses the concerns of academics in Canada over the growing role of corporate sponsorship in college research. Percentage of research funds from the federal government as declining since the 1980s causing more reliance on private grants; Narrowing opportunities for grant support of basic research; Researchers being forced to pursue applied research and entrepreneurship over basic research and scholarship.

Increasingly common strategies can increase income from federal grants, private contracts, and philanthropic donations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses an August 2000 meeting of university and company officials at the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) at Bethesda, Maryland. Their struggle to reach a consensus about how to handle financial interests among academic scientists that might bias research they conduct with human volunteers; Implications on research of the growing financial support companies provide to academic institutions; Potential for conflict of interest that exists for scientists funded by corporations.

The article discusses the results of a 2012 survey by the Association of University Technology Managers that researched revenue generated by research at U.S. universities. The commercialization of academic research and start-up companies at schools such as Northwestern University, the University of Florida, and Cornell University are discussed. The University of Nebraska earned revenue through a partnership with German company Bayer Crop Science to study new strains of wheat. The University of Illinois at Chicago and at Urbana-Champaign continued to profit from the HIV drug Prezista.

The article discusses low prices for real estate caused by the 2009 recession as an opportunity for universities to expand. It quotes a real estate official calling the situation a once-in-a-generation opportunity. It notes that the concept of former manufacturing facilities becoming university research facilities may be indicative of a larger social change. Research, it notes, can be the driver of growth in a post-recession economy. The University of Delaware's acquisition of a closed Chrysler automobile plant in November 2009 is cited as an example. It is adjacent to the main campus, and the university plans to develop it gradually with new laboratories. Other examples cited include Johns Hopkins University, University of Massachusetts at Boston, and the Lone star College system.

This article discusses how states with booming industries, such as oil and natural gas, are using their profit to bolster higher education. Schools discussed in the article include the University of North Texas, which is luring researchers by spending millions of dollars on collaborative research projects, North Dakota State University, which is reportedly on a hiring binge, and the University of Alaska, which is building a health-science building and installing other educational facilities. David A. Longanecker, the president of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, discusses the other options for this money.

Discusses the report by the United States National Science Board urging the National Science Foundation to increase its spending on research and education on environmental issues. Recommendations; House of Representatives' Apporpriations Committee's plan for a cut in the N. S. F.'s budget in fiscal 2000; Outlook.

Details how the National Institute of Health issued draft guidelines that discourage biomedical researchers from requiring excessive fees and other financial conditions for lending material and equipment to other scientists. Possibility of limiting universities' ability to control and profit from tools that their researchers develop; No penalties for those who continue to seek restrictive agreements; How suppliers and users of research tools will continue to have to forge agreements case by case.