Creating the Market University (eBook)

How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine

Elizabeth Popp Berman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4047-2 (ISBN)

Infos

When science adopts the logic of the marketAmerican 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 economy-brought about this transformation.Americans have a long tradition of making heroes out of their inventors. But before the 1960s and '70s neither policymakers nor economists paid much attention to the critical economic role played by innovation. However, during the late 1970s, a confluence of events-industry concern with the perceived deterioration of innovation in the United States, a growing body of economic research on innovation's importance, and the stagnation of the larger economy-led to a broad political interest in fostering invention. The policy decisions shaped by this change were diverse, influencing arenas from patents and taxes to pensions and science policy, and encouraged practices that would focus specifically on the economic value of academic science. By the early 1980s, universities were nurturing the rapid growth of areas such as biotech entrepreneurship, patenting, and university-industry research centers.Contributing to debates about the relationship between universities, government, and industry, Creating the Market University sheds light on how knowledge and politics intersect to structure the economy.

Autor

Elizabeth Popp Berman is assistant professor of sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 6 line illus. 2 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Academic entrepreneurship • academic science • advisory board • Affiliate Marketing • Agriculture • american universities • american university • Arizona State University • Association of American Universities • balance of trade • behalf • Biogen • bioscience entrepreneurship • biotech entrepreneurship • Biotechnology • Budget • Business Plan • California Institute of Technology • Capital Gain • Capital Gains Tax • chemical engineering • Chemical Industry • Collaboration • Commercialization • Competition • competitiveness • Consumption (Economics) • Cooperative Research Centre • Economic Development • Economic Growth • economic impact analysis • Economic Policy • Economic Research • economic role • Economics • economist • economy • Economy of the United States • Employee Retirement Income Security Act • Employment • Engineering • Engineering Research Centers • Entrepreneurship • faculty entrepreneurship • federal funding • federal funds • Funding • Funding of science • Genentech • General Electric • government procurement • Harvard University • Herbert Boyer • Hewlett-Packard • High Tech • Incentive • Industrial Research Institute • Industry • Innovation • Institution • Institutional Logic • Intellectual Property • International Trade • Investment • Knowledge • land-grant university • Legislation • lobbying • market logic • market-logic practice • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Milstein • National Governors Association • National Institutes of Health • National Science Board • National Science Foundation • Neoliberalism • New Direction (think tank) • New Federalism • Nonprofit Organization • Oral History • Patent • patenting • Patent policy • patents • Pension • pension fund • Policy • policy debate • Politics • postwar era • Productivity • Project • Prudent man rule • Recession • recombinant DNA • Regulation • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • Research and Development • Research Center • Research Corporation • Research partnership • Research Triangle Park • science logic • Science Policy • Small Business • Sociology • Stanford University • startup company • Subsidy • Tax • Tax Cut • Technology • Technology Transfer • The New York Times • university inventions • University of California • universityЩndustry research centers • U.S. economy • US Government • Venture Capital • xerox • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4047-3 / 1400840473
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4047-2 / 9781400840472