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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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 of commerce. Creating the Market University is the first book to systematically examine why academic science made such a dramatic move toward the market. Drawing on extensive historical research, Elizabeth Popp Berman shows how the government--influenced by the argument that innovation drives the e. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781400840472 |