Truth in Fiction?
The following book review from the New York Times of Daniel Greenberg’s “Tech Transfer“ suggests some fun summer reading on university COI:
“Tech Transfer” is the deceptively mild title of a mordant satire about scientists and universities and how they do business. The best scene in this hilarious first novel is a meeting of the trustees of Kershaw University, an elite research university only 200 years younger than Harvard. The trustees have to select a new president. They listen with mounting dismay as the professional headhunter in charge of the search reads out the polished résumés of each candidate, but notes in each case the fatal flaws revealed by background checks, ranging from spousal abuse to bestiality and, even more fatal, plagiarism.
As the trustees hasten to leave for the airport, they agree on a nonentity, Mark Winner, an economics professor with a thin résumé and a clean rap sheet.