RT Article
T1 Canada’s Stem Cell Corporation: Aggregate Concerns and the Question of Public Trust
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 77
IS 1
SP 73
OP 84
A1 Herder, Matthew
A1 Brian, Jennifer Dyck
A2 Brian, Jennifer Dyck
LA English
YR 2008
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785628933
AB This paper examines one nascent entrepreneurial endeavour intended by Canada’s Stem Cell Network to catalyze the commercialization of stem cell research: the creation of a company called “Aggregate Therapeutics”. We argue that this initiative, in its current configuration, is likely to result in a breach of public trust owing to three inter-related concerns: conflicts of interest; corporate influence on the university research agenda; and the failure to provide some form of direct return for the public’s substantial tax dollar investment. These concerns are common to many efforts to commercialize academic science but are rendered particularly acute in this case given the therapeutic promise of stem cell research and the considerable number of resources related to stem cell research in Canada, which Aggregate Therapeutics is expected to pool. We do, however, believe that the company can be altered to guard against a violation of the public’s trust, and so we present concrete modifications to its structure, which we contend should be given immediate consideration.
K1 stem cell
K1 Public Trust
K1 Patent
K1 Intellectual Property
K1 Governance
K1 commercialization
K1 Canada
K1 Biotechnology
DO 10.1007/s10551-006-9294-z