The Service University and Market Forces

Editor's Note: Several provocative essays on university-industry relations by two Canadian sociologists recently came to our attention. The relevance of their thoughts on service university were reflected in a Time article (April 13, 1992) that indicated similar developments in the United States: Inside what was the ivory tower, there is a growing interest in new kinds of alliances with business. Examples cited by the article included the joint projects in biomedical science between Washington University and Montsanto and the Hitachi-University of California, Irvine high-tech lab. A typical remark was made by Michael Schrage of MIT: It's one thing for a campus to encourage private industry to participate in research. It is quite another to have facilities that blur the line between private and proprietary. With partnerships between universities and