Private Assets, Public Mission

The rise of biotechnology together with the Bayh-Dole Act greatly intensified the practice of university technology transfer in which academic institutions take ownership of federally funded discoveries and license them as private assets.  In the process, the idea of the “entrepreneurial university” was born.  What exactly is the entrepreneurial university, and how should constituents of the university--students, faculty and the public at large--engage it?   Can we create a new politics of innovation thereby?