Author: Elizabeth Popp Berman

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2012-01-08

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0691147086

"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.