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    Should Philosophers of Science Attention to the Commercialization ol Irzik, dominant in the US, replacing the old one which was operative since 1945 itz and Webster 1995; JasanofT 2005; Mirowski and Sent 2008). The old Nras formulated vividly in Vannevar Bush's famous 1985 repo. Science — Endless Fromer, according to which a simple division of labor between the -and the scientists was envisioned: while the former would set the research ‘and provide the funds, the later would produce scientific discoveries ‘Would then be developed into uleful products by the industry for the benetit, ation, In this mode of scene knowledge production, universities would the pressure of a number of forces, this old regime broke down. The me was established on the basis of an ever-expanding intellectual property the privatization of publicly funded research, and new forms of collabora een the university, the state and the industry (Bok 2003; Boyle 1997: 2001; Krimsky 2004; Magnus et al. 2002; MeSherry 2001; Mirowski 2008). It can be seen as responding to the demands of what is of “post-industrial capitalism” or “knowledge economy”, to use a less ly charged phrase. The common assumption is that expert knowledge, tant than labor, land and money and a Key to economic competitiveness. ‘result, scientific knowledge became commodified and certain segments of mic science, notably biomedicine and genetics, have become rapidly com- cilized in unprecedented ways primarily in the US and to a lesser degree

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