In terms of our academic mission and values, all of us in higher education should be especially wary of contracts that reserve final editorial discretion to an outside corporation, or that require extensive delays in publication.
When an outside corporation comes in, controls the mineral rights, and is able to put a stranglehold on any diversification of the economy, subjecting the coalfield areas to the boom-bust whims of a volatile economy, there is nothing but despair and hopelessness that remains.
The family, which has long been criticized by scholars for its aggressive profit-making approach to Dr. King's legacy, argued that outside corporations should not be allowed to exploit Dr. King's memory without giving a share to the estate.
For all that, the campaign to lure outside corporations seems to be working.
While EverFi's technology is not free to use, the platform's use in public schools is completely funded by outside corporations and foundations that license its programs.
Eighty pieces of new business have emerged between Cubo's startups and outside corporations, and 650 new jobs have been created in the process.
"The obvious risk," says Michael Meranze, a professor of history at UCLA who shares a blog on academic issues with Newfield, "is that academic research gets done to advance the interests of outside corporations, rather than guided by the logic of the university's mission".
Closing the Delaware loophole, combined with eliminating Governor Corbett's handouts to outside corporations in the form of a phase-out of the Capital Stock and Franchise Tax -- estimated to add $350 million to state coffers alone -- would bring hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars back into the Pennsylvania.
The Postal Service increasingly relies on outside corporations for everything from sorting mail and transporting it by air and ground to advertising and I.T. consulting: Last year, the agency spent more than $12 billion on such contracts, according to Husch Blackwell, a law firm that represents Postal Service contractors.
The innovation assets (i.e. the startups) begin outside the corporation and remain outside the corporation.
In this model, innovation assets (i.e. startups and established companies) begin outside the corporation and are brought inside the corporation via acquisition.
