ABSTRACT
The history of the relationships among Congress, the National Science Foundation, Just as it would be irresponsible to overstate the claims for the new genetic technology industry, so would it be unsound to encourage and facilitate its growth without careful consideration of important unresolved policy issues concerning the relations of science, government and industry. Assessment of the effect of existing arrangements on the university, on the health of science, on industry and on the public has, to date, been inadequate. The proposed Harvard experiment suggested major revision of the university patent policy and alteration of the formal relationships of the university to its investments and of the faculty to industry. New applications of molecular genetics are rapidly changing the relations between science, government and industry in a research field leading the search for new knowledge about fundamental life processes.
