Abstract
Over the nearly two de cades since the publication of Academic Capitalism: Politics, Policies, and the Entrepreneurial University (Slaughter and Leslie 1997), the model of academic capitalism has become one of the more widely cited conceptual frameworks in the global literature on higher education. Works in the academic capitalist canon have relied on the two basic understandings of the theory of academic capitalism and the new economy, as articulated by Slaughter and Leslie (1997), Slaughter and Rhoades (2004), and Rhoades and Slaughter (2006). Rhoades and Slaughter (2006) summarize these two conceptual strands as “the increasing engagement of higher education institutions and participants in the market-like and market behaviors in creating and taking to the marketplace (1) research and education products and ser vices that commodify higher education’s basic work and (2) nonacademic products and services that feature higher education as a nonacademic consumption item (dimensions of the new economy)” (104). ...
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2014
ISBN
9781421415383
Recommended Citation
Jacob H. Rooksby & Brian Pusser, Learning to Litigate: University Patents in the Knowledge Economy, in Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization (Brendan Cantwell & Ilkka Kauppinen eds, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014).
