ABSTRACT
On October 12, 1990, Ralph Nader gave a talje on "The Relationship Between the University and Business and Industry" as part of Wayne State's conference, Ethics and the University. Business interests are taking over the university. The university will lose its soul unless it again becomes a place apart, a source of independent research and impartial judgment. University attorneys will need to distinguish clearly those links with business that universities ought to allow, or even encourage, from those the universities should discourage or forbid. The companies therefore want their links with the university to include research involving the institution's graduate students. They view these links as analogous to those often established with universities as part of an undergraduate "co-op" program. Even university researchers with close links to business agree that their research should be determined by the probability of scientifically interesting discoveries, not the profit that it might generate.
