Corporate funding for academia often causes unease about the independence and integrity of such research. Now, a study shows that partnerships with energy sector are more favourably inclined towards fossil fuels than to renewables.

Abstract This article reflects on the different inequalities that cut across academic spaces and role language plays in them, uses this reflection to move towards proposing transformative strategies overcome current status quo. First, it explores impact of unequal distribution economic symbolic resources lack recognition or misrecognition many academics, both which result unbalanced participati...

∗Department of Physics and Materials Science Center, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC †Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC ‡Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC §Department of Materials Science Engineering, Feng-Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC ††Institute of physic...

The conversion of basic biology into new therapeutics requires scientific activities in both academia and industry. Successful drug discovery projects span disciplines, sectors, and institutions and tightly couple laboratory and clinical experiments. Here, Ehlers describes conceptions and misconceptions about how science is conducted in industry versus academia.