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Creating the market university : how academic science became an economic engine /
American universities today serve as economic engines, performing the scientific research that will create new industries, drive economic growth, and keep the United States globally competitive. But only a few decades ago, these same universities self-consciously held themselves apart from the world...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Creating the Market University; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1; Academic Science as an Economic Engine; The Changing Nature of Academic Science; Studying the Changes in Academic Science; Explaining the Rise of Market Logic in Academic Science; Overview of the Book; CHAPTER 2; Market Logic in the Era of Pure Science; Federal Funding and the Support of Science Logic; Using Market Logic in the 1950s and 1960s; Limits to the Spread of Market Logic; The Pillars of the Postwar System Begin to Crumble; The Effects of the Dissolving Federal Consensus.
- CHAPTER 3; Innovation Drives the Economy--an Old Idea with New Implications; Market-Logic Practices of the 1970s and Their Limits; The Political Power of an Economic Idea; The Innovation Frame and the University; CHAPTER 4; Faculty Entrepreneurship in the Biosciences; Before Biotech; Early Entrepreneurship; 1978: A Turning Point; Academic Entrepreneurship: Money Changes Everything; Why Did Bioscience Entrepreneurship Take Off?; CHAPTER 5; Patenting University Inventions; University Patenting during the Science-Logic Era; Barriers to the Expansion of University Patenting.
- Innovation, the Economy, and Government Patent Policy; University Patenting after 1980; Why Did University Patenting Take Off?; CHAPTER 6; Creating University-Industry Research Centers; UIRCs versus Biotech Entrepreneurship and University Patenting; The Trajectory of University-Industry Research Centers; The Emergence of Federal and State Support for UIRCs; The Expansion of State and Federal Support for UIRCs in the 1980s; Why Did University-Industry Research Centers Spread?; CHAPTER 7; THE SPREAD OF MARKET LOGIC; The Expansion of Biotech Entrepreneurship, Patenting, and UIRCs.
- Market Logic Elsewhere in Academic Science; University Administrators and the Rhetoric of Innovation; Science Logic and Market Logic: An Uneasy Coexistence; CHAPTER 8; CONCLUSION; How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine: Considering the Evidence; Reconsidering Alternative Arguments; Speaking to Larger Conversations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.