The Partnership between Science and Industry: Co‐operation or Conflict of Interest?

Not just “partnership” but other amorous metaphors abound in this small but dense volume on the relations between science and industry: “marriage” and “dating agency” are two examples. Once upon a time, more accurately before the Second World War, there was said to be a reign of the gentleman‐scientist, the halcyon days of science for science’s sake. But in Francis Bacon’s words to James I, “knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man’s estate”. Therefore, even in the seventeenth century, Bacon was suggesting that funding of science is a means to the...