Title Creating the market university : how academic science became an economic engine / Elizabeth Popp Berman

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012] ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 281 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-259) and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 9, 2016) SUBJECT Freie Universität Berlin Allgemeiner Studentenausschuß Kulturreferat gnd Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd Subject Academic-industrial collaboration. SCIENCE -- Study & Teaching. EDUCATION -- Finance. Academic-industrial collaboration Industrie Kooperation Hochschule. Forschung. Vermarktung. Wirtschaftsentwicklung. Hochschulpolitik. USA. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400840472 1400840473 1283339854 9781283339858

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