Creating The Market University

Download or read book Creating the Market University written by Elizabeth Popp Berman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Academic science in the U.S. once self-consciously avoided the market. But today it is seen as an economic engine that keeps the nation globally competitive. Creating the Market University compares the origins of biotech entrepreneurship, university patenting, and university-industry research centers to show how government decisions shaped by a new argument--that innovation drives the economy-transformed academic science"-- Provided by publisher.