Examines current trends toward increasing links between industry and academia and the resulting commercialization of universities as they seek to capitalize their research.

Henry Etzkowitz is Director of the Science Policy Institute at the State University of New York at Purchase. He is the author of the forthcoming Athena Unbound: Overcoming Barriers to Women in Science. Andrew Webster is Director of the Science and Technology Studies Unit at England's Anglia University. He is the author of Innovation and the Intellectual Property System and Building New Bases for Innovation: The Transformation of the R & D System in Post-Socialist States. Peter Healey is Director of the Science Policy Support Group in London, England.