ABSTRACT
Since WWII, public science funding institutions around the world have become a mainstay of public policy. Private science funding, while waxing and waning throughout history, has recently become extremely prominent. This chapter outlines and analyzes the primary values of science funding institutions in public, commercial, and philanthropic settings.
Readers may be interested in these Handbook chapters as well: Rachel A. Ankeny and Emily A. Buddle, “Valuing Partnerships in Agricultural Genomics Research: Using More Empirically Informed Philosophical Approaches to Advance the Science and Values Debates”; Pedro Bravo, “Values and Industry-Funded Research”; Heather Douglas, “Science and Social Justice”; David B. Resnik, “Values and Dual Use Biomedical Research.”
