EXHIBIT 2.

Prevalence Of Academic-Industry Relationships

	All respondents	Department type		Rank
		Clinical	Nonclinical	Professor	Associate professor	Assistant professor	Other
Any relationship	52.8%	54.7%	45.9%a	64.2%b	51.5%	42.8%	30.6%
Founder, board of directors, or officer/executive	4.6	4.1	6.4a	7.5b	3.6	2.5	0.0
Employee	1.5	1.7	0.9	0.6b	1.2	2.6	5.2
Scientific advisory board	17.7	18.8	13.7a	27.9b	14.8	8.5	4.3
Consultant	31.8	33.1	26.9a	44.4b	29.7	19.2	20.1
Paid speaker	23.8	25.7	16.8a	28.3b	23.9	18.6	14.8
Recipient of funding for research as a principal investigator	20.1	23.3	9.4a	25.6b	19.9	13.8	3.3
Recipient of funding for students, post-doctoral fellow	5.9	6.3	4.4	6.4	6.5	5.5	1.5
Sold/licensed patent or recipient of royalties	9.4	7.4	17.0a	15.7b	6.8	4.5	1.5

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

NOTES: We asked, “In the past three years, have you served in any of the following roles for companies whose activities, products, or services are in your area of professional expertise: Company founder, Member of the board of directors, Consultant, Employee. Recipient of funding for university research. Recipient of funding for students or post-doctoral fellows, Officer/Executive, Member of scientific advisory board, Recipient of royalties, Company owns or licenses a patent based on your research, or Paid speaker.” The response categories were Yes and No.

^ap< 0.05 for the comparison with clinical departments.

^bp < 0.05 from chi-square comparing across rank for all academic-industry relationship comparisons.