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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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Auteur principal: Berman, Elizabeth Popp, 1975- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (278 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781400840472