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Title Science and the university / edited by Paula E. Stephan and Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Published Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages)
Series Science and technology in society
Science and technology in society.
Contents Who bears the growing cost of science at universities? / Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Michael J. Rizzo and George H. Jakubson -- How does the government (want to) fund science?: politics, lobbying and academic earmarks / John M. de Figueiredo and Brian S. Silverman -- University science research funding: privatizing policy and practice / Risa L. Lieberwitz -- Patterns of research and licensing activity of science and engineering faculty / Jerry G. Thursby and Marie C. Thursby -- Commercialization and the scientific research process: the example of plant breeding / W. Ronnie Coffman, William H. Lesser and Susan R. McCouch -- The importance of foreign Ph. D. students to U.S. science / Grant G. Black and Paula E. Stephan -- Do foreign students crowd out native students from graduate programs? / George J. Borjas -- Foreign scholars in U.S. science: contributions and costs / Paula E. Stephan and Sharon G. Levin -- The changing composition of American citizen PhDs / Jeffrey A. Groen and Michael J. Rizzo -- Where do new US-trained science engineering PhDs come from? / Richard B. Freeman, Emily Jin, and Chia-Yu Shen -- Global research competition affects U.S. output / Diana M. Hicks -- The workforce for biomedical research-- who will do the work? / Susan A. Gerbi and Howard Garrison
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
Research -- United States -- Finance
Graduate students in science -- United States
Science students -- United States
Universities and colleges -- United States.
SCIENCE -- Study & Teaching.
Graduate students in science
Research -- Finance
Science students
Science -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Universities and colleges
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Stephan, Paula E.
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.
LC no. 2007011939
ISBN 9780299224837
029922483X
1282255975
9781282255975
9786612255977
6612255978