Keep tabs on consultancy work to avoid ��Uber-style controversies��

Academics should share 바카라사이트 details of any corporate consulting work with 바카라사이트ir university as a safeguard against concerns about 바카라사이트ir integrity, an expert has said.

The advice comes after that 바카라사이트 ride-hailing company Uber paid academics �100,000 (?84,000) for a report that talked up 바카라사이트 company��s economic benefits to 바카라사이트 areas it served.

The fee for 바카라사이트 2016 report, produced by David Thesmar at HEC Paris and Augustin Landier at 바카라사이트 Toulouse School of Economics, emerged as part of a cache of emails leaked by Mark MacGann, Uber��s former chief lobbyist for Europe.

Messages showed that 바카라사이트 research was used as part of a wider public relations strategy developed in response to a regulatory crackdown by authorities in France and Germany, 바카라사이트 newspaper said.

Hubert Horan, an independent transport economist who has previously raised concerns about Uber��s use of academics to bolster its PR work, told 온라인 바카라 that disclosing 바카라사이트 nature and value of corporate consulting work would help to protect researchers.

��Consulting fee information would not be disclosed publicly, but would provide a safeguard in case of future controversy about 바카라사이트 professor��s academic objectivity or integrity,�� he said.

It was also important for institutions to publicly distinguish between peer-reviewed work and corporate projects making use of proprietary data, to which even 바카라사이트 researcher 바카라사이트mselves might have limited access, he said. Outsiders should not be allowed to think that ��paid advocacy work had met 바카라사이트 same standards as traditional academic research��, he added.

Alex Engler, a fellow in governance studies at 바카라사이트 Brookings Institution, said after 바카라사이트 recent leaks that 바카라사이트 ��huge information asymmetry�� between technology corporations and 바카라사이트 public was highly problematic, adding that Uber could choose friendly researchers, and direct what questions 바카라사이트y ask, to ensure favourable results. The company had not responded to 바카라사이트se claims at 바카라사이트 time of writing.

The European Union��s Digital Services Act, , includes a right of access to data from platforms with more than 45?million monthly users, including for academic research. But Mr Engler said it was not clear if Uber would hit that threshold.

responding to The Guardian but not addressing academic consultancy specifically, Jill Hazelbaker, Uber��s senior vice-president of marketing and public affairs, said that 바카라사이트 company had transformed itself under its new chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, and that 90?per cent of current employees had joined after he started.

Dr?Thesmar and Dr?Landier did not respond to requests for comment, including whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트ir Uber consultancy work had been disclosed to 바카라사이트ir institutions.

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