by maryadkins Tue Oct 28, 2014 5:17 pm
Both authors believe that access to new ideas is constrained recently by market forces as evident from the following lines:
Passage A, 10-12: "Unfortunately, the market process and values governing commodity exchange are ill suited to the cultivation and management of new ideas," and lines 20-21 "...buy research and bury its products, hiding knowledge useful to society..."
Passage B, lines 32-33: "once...a public good...available to society as a whole..."; lines 38-41: "today, however...what was previously seen as a public good is being transformed into a market commodity"; lines 61-65: "It is entitled to seek a return on its investment...by keeping it for its own exclusive use."