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Tag Archives: Vannevar Bush
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
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged Atkinson, Bayh-Dole, entrepreneurial university, Godin, linear model, Science the Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush
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Hope of Better Things
Vannevar Bush (1949) [emphasis added]: The real reason we made such great progress was not bright inventors or clever gadgets. It was the fact that we had thousands of men who understood the underlying science in the field, who skillfully … Continue reading
Posted in History, Innovation, Literature, Policy
Tagged Science the Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush
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Francis Bacon, Vannevar Bush, and Technology Transfer
Peter Harrison and Benoît Godin trace the history and transformation of two of the critical concepts that underlie the present formula for university research: curiosity and innovation. Remarkably, both concepts have much of their early existence as negative things, to be … Continue reading
Posted in History, Social Science, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged caritas, commercialization, Francis Bacon, research, technology transfer, Vannevar Bush
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