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Directions: Using your notes, create a 4-columned table comparing the major difference among
Academic Science, Industrial Science, and Government Science. Complete the table. DO NOT
COPY FROM THE INTERNET. Use your notes and your notes only.

Academic Science Industrial Science Government

Science
For example:
Done in universities and similar corporations DOST, DOH
organizations and similar enterprise

Scientists are not paid paid paid

1. Money From scientists own From Business firms From taxation
source for pocket
science

2. Money goes Funded almost entirely Goes to its own Fund their
the commonwealth laboratories own
laboratories
such as
CSIRO and
assorted state
government
laboratories

3. R&D Pressured to publish No scientists are allowed to Willing to

their work published their research take over or
fund the
academic and
industrial
research

4. Seen that Have a strong motive to They have a strong Market failure
contribute their disincentives firms do not
knowledge as quickly want their knowledge
as possible to the spread out, and usually
common pool of insist that their employees
understanding sign non-disclosure
agreements to prevent
knowledge leaking out
 5. Types of Public scientists Organizational scientists Private
scientists scientists

6. Improvement Research are being cut Research developments Growing as

s back somewhat, and growing rapidly than any much as
researchers in this area where in the world industrial
are being pressured to
seek funding from the
commercial sector

7. Define as Simply as that science It is easy to overlook the We may

which is carried out in share quantity of research define
academic institutions and development which is government
carried out in business R&D science
usually industrial and
organizations technology
which is not
only funded
by
governments
but also
carried out in
government
laboratories

8. The goal as Scientist advance in The improvement of the Improving

academia trough firms economic position public and
promotion within their private good
organization. lessen the
market failure

9. They are Usually anxious to Firms hurry to lodge Two concepts

ensure that they receive patents,thus establishing market failure
their due their rights as discoveries and public
of the process goods can be
use to explain
most
government
involvement
in science and
technology

10. Understand Can do pure research to And industrial can take Two useful
produce basic knowledge and turn it into concept must
knowledge products and process understood

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market failure
and public
goods