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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 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.

a

p< 0.05 for the comparison with clinical departments.

b

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