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The rise of the entrepreneurial university has aroused intense debates about the changing relationship between academic scientists and the marketplace, and the consequences of the increasingly blurred boundaries between science and business for the norms and practices of academic scientific work (Owen-Smith & Powell, 2001; Vallas & Lee Kleinman, 2008). Some scholars view the institutional transformation in a positive light and stress the growing convergence between academia and industry.
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Lam, A. (2015). Shifting Institutional Boundaries. In: Reale, E., Primeri, E. (eds) The Transformation of University Institutional and Organizational Boundaries. Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-178-6_1
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