In the article “The Politics of Research”, the author discusses the motivations of research. In fact, Martin says are based on the gain of knowledge and power. Next, he classifies the different kinds of knowledge, and he concludes that there is a connection between knowledge and power. On top of that, the author says that education precedes knowledge and knowledge precedes power because government, business leaders and parents rely on educated people to maintain the nation survival. Also, according to Martin, education aids people to get the bodies of knowledge and research is the investigation and improvement of existing knowledge. However, once becoming an expert in specific domain, government, big companies use that knowledge to generate power that is used to control other citizens.
Personally, I think everything is based on money making; research is expensive, so I find normal that research investors try to make profit of it after it’s done.
