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Vannevar Bush and the Unexpected Model of Innovation

In Science and Technology Policy in the United States: Open Systems in Action, Sylvia Kraemer spends a section of a chapter discussing Vannevar Bush and Science the Endless Frontier. Kraemer agrees that Science the Endless Frontier is an important document in … Continue reading

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Federal Sweep and Swamp Policy

The US government proposes spending $1b on innovation in manufacturing. If one likes government spending on such things, this sounds like a really good thing. Here is a link to the NNMI homepage overview.  The preliminary design document for the … Continue reading

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The Entrepreunial Research University

Three narratives have come together to support the transformation of American university innovation policy from one of diversity and institutional support to one of monopoly institutional control of research inventions, heralded as the best thing for the country. All the … Continue reading

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Undoing the Research Myth in the Linear Model

Joe Lane and Benoît Godin are out with another paper that follows up on their Science Progress discussion. In their new paper, they argue that innovation arises along three related areas of activity–scientific research, engineering development, and production. Each of … Continue reading

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Limitation and Focus

It is easy to confuse focus and limitation. Focus selects valuable things from diversity, mobilizes resources, and aims to achieve a goal. Limitation cuts off consideration of opportunity from diversity and sets up rules to make things simple (or at … Continue reading

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