The Changing Frontier : Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy / Adam B. Jaffe, Benjamin F. Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jaffe, Adam B., Editor.

Jones, Benjamin F., Editor.

Series:

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.

National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and state.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1945, Vannevar Bush, founder of Raytheon and one-time engineering dean at MIT, delivered a report to the president of the United States that argued for the importance of public support for science, and the importance of science for the future of the nation. The report, Science: The Endless Frontier, set America on a path toward strong and well-funded institutions of science, creating an intellectual architecture that still defines scientific endeavor today. In The Changing Frontier, Adam B. Jaffe and Benjamin Jones bring together a group of prominent scholars to consider the changes in science and innovation in the ensuing decades. The contributors take on such topics as changes in the organization of scientific research, the geography of innovation, modes of entrepreneurship, and the structure of research institutions and linkages between science and innovation. An important analysis of where science stands today, The Changing Frontier will be invaluable to practitioners and policy makers alike.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration

2. The (Changing) Knowledge Production Function

3. Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science

4. Credit History: The Changing Nature of Scientific Credit The Changing Nature of Scientific Credit

5. The Rise of International Coinvention

6 Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity

7 Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy

8. Economic Value Creation in Mobile Applications

9. State Science Policy Experiments

10. The Endless Frontier

11. Algorithms and the Changing Frontier

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-226-28686-X

OCLC:

1125185976