Resumen
The world over, universities became centers of scientific advancement and intellectual ferment. After many years of generous government support for sponsored research, universities have made research a centerpiece of their public identities and offer faculty sure rewards for success at sponsored research. Yet something has happened to tarnish the image of research in universities. Despite its many successes, two major problems with academic research arised. One is the publish or perish syndrome. The second problem with academic research is that it does not confirm to the linear model that ideas are born to researchers and wend their way through a pipeline of development, production, and marketing before becoming consumer products. To make matters worse, the Internet and digital library are making the university library and local community of scholars obsolete, while at the same time, email, phones, fax machines, and jet airliners have made it easier for faculty to establish stronger loyalties to national professions than to local institutions.