When Venture Philanthropy Rocks the Ivory Tower

Opening up the Ivory Tower

Big pharma is increasingly looking to academia for new drug leads and technologies; meanwhile universities are being forced to look beyond the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for funding. This mutual attraction-out-of-necessity is helping to forge new bonds between industry and academia.

The Ivory Tower of Theory

One of our first priorities, after the first week of the December 2008 rebellion had passed, was to record its most important events so that comrades abroad could have some first-hand information. The recording took the form of a rough chronology of the events in Athens, supplemented with a chronology of what had happened in Thessaloniki which was written by the Blaumachen group and other comra...

The ivory tower v. the marketplace.

In his American Psychiatric Association address, Alan A. Stone, MD provided a stimulating and controversial argument. I appreciate the candor and clarity with which he stated his position and his acknowledgement of its limitations. The purist in the ivory tower has a significant contribution to make concerning ethical problems in our profession but so has the practitioner in the marketplace. I ...

Special Collections Outside the Ivory Tower

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS MATERIALS are not only to be found in academic libraries; they can be found in museum, public and national, and independent research libraries as well. The focus of this paper is on independent research libraries, especially those who are members of the Independent Research Library Association (IRLA). IIUA members are eighteen private, nonprofit research and education instit...

Speaking Truth to Power to Change the Ivory Tower