Abstract
The 'commercialization' of the universities throughout the West continues to inspire animated debate. Many writers have described and analyzed the steps that, over the past two and a half decades, have led to a greater interdependence between universities and 'the market'. Growing reliance on industrial sources of funding, the commercial exploitation of research, protected in the form of 'intellectual capital', use of online education to increase tuition revenues all are well-known examples of the phenomenon. The consequences of this shift to 'academic capitalism' has been thoroughly described and analyzed, welcomed by some, and criticized by others.1
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