STS and Neoliberalism - 2011 - 2010

"Indeed, the forces bearing down upon the economists, the philosophers, and
the science studies scholars must have been considerable, given that they all
ended up saying pretty much the same things about science by the turn of the
millennium. The neoliberals had won: Science no longer qualified as a
public good." Mirowski, 2011, Science-Mart

" Last widely noted impact of the neoliberal science management regime is the aggressive promotion and protection of intellectual property in hopes of gaining com-mercial value from knowledge. There is an intimate connection between the neoliberal recasting of the market as an information processor, and the growth of the conviction that knowledge should be commodified. This connection seems all the stronger when one considers that, as several recent studies have pointed out, for the vast majority of universities patenting has been a losing financial proposition (Geiger & Sa, 2008; Greenberg, 2007; Newfield, 2008: ch. 12; Powell et al., 2007). Insisting upon the commercialization of knowledge has, so far at least, proven more ideologically effective than economically practical"

Rebecca Lave, Philip Mirowski and Samuel Randalls - Introduction: STS and Neoliberal Science (2010)