Institutional Conflicts of Interest in Academic Research
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Financial relationships in academic research can create institutional conflicts of interest (COIs) because the financial interests of the institution or institutional officials may inappropriately influence decision-making. Strategies for dealing with institutional COIs include establishing institutional COI committees that involve the board of trustees in conflict review and management, developing policies that shield institutional decisions from inappropriate influences, and establishing private foundations that are independent of the institution to own stock and intellectual property and to provide capital to start-up companies.
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Financial conflicts of interest affect not only individual researchers but also academic institutions and institutional leaders.
“However, financial CoIs do not only affect individual researchers, but also academic institutions and institutional leaders [286][287][288][289] , and current policies tend to regulate even small benefits to individual researchers (e.g., free meals), while often failing to address appropriately the effects of large amount of funding for institutions 289,290 .”
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- Authors
- Resnik, D. B.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Resnik, David B.
- ORCID
- Resnik, David B.
- Venue
- Science and Engineering Ethics
- Published
- 2015-10-07
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1661-1669
- ISSN
- 1353-3452 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-5546
- PMC
- PMC4824668
- OpenAlex
- W1878724595
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 1.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Science and Engineering Ethics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (ZIAES102646)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Pharmacology › Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Research, Science, and Academia
- Keywords
- academic research, financial relations, board of trustees, institutional decision-making, private foundations, intellectual property, startups, research ethics
- MeSH terms
- Decision Making, Humans, Organizations, Research Support as Topic, Universities, Conflict of Interest, Ethics Committees, Ethics, Research
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