Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Campaign

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Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Campaign
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Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Campaign
Company pays stipends of $5,000 to $400,000 for research supporting business practices that face regulatory scrutiny; a ‘wish list’ of topics.
By
Jack.Nicas@dowjones.com
July 11, 2017 11:01 a.m. ET
Google operates a little-known program to harness the brain power of university researchers to help sway opinion and public policy, cultivating financial relationships with professors at campuses from Harvard University to the University of California, Berkeley.
Over the past decade, Google has helped finance hundreds of research papers to defend against regulatory challenges of its market dominance, paying stipends of $5,000 to...
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