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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 9.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2009 Nov-Dec;28(6):1814–1825. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.6.1814

EXHIBIT 1.

Characteristics Of Respondents, Survey Of Academic Researchers Regarding Academic-Industry Relationships, 2006

All faculty (N = 2.168)
Clinical facultya (n= 1,071)
Nonclinical facultyb (n = 1,097)
Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent
Male 1,549 72 729 69 820 76

Race/ethnicity
 Asian 314 15 155 15 159 15
 Black or African American 22 1 13 1 9 1
 White 1,705 80 832 79 873 81
 Other 47 2 24 2 23 2
 Declined to report 57 3 31 3 26 2
 Hispanic, any race 56 3 29 3 27 3

Years in profession
 0–5 32 1 22 2 10 1
 6–10 235 11 126 12 109 10
 11–20 685 32 363 34 322 30
 21–30 675 32 322 30 353 33
 31–40 370 17 164 15 206 19
 41+ 142 7 62 6 80 7

Academic rank
 Professor 962 45 363 34 599 55c
 Associate professor 563 28 302 28 261 24
 Assistant professor 561 26 339 32 222 20
 Other 63 3 59 6 4 1

SOURCE: Authors’ analysis of the 2006 Academic-Industry Relationships Faculty Survey.

a

Defined by employment within a department of medicine, anesthesiology, neurology, neurosurgery, obstetrics/gynecology, otolaryngology, pathology, pediatrics, psychiatry, radiation/oncology, or surgery.

b

Defined by their employment within a department of anatomy/cell biology, biochemistry, microbiology, pharmacology, or physiology/biophysics, or within a department or doctoral-level degree program in genetics.

c

p<0.01, chi-square comparing clinical to nonclinical faculty.