Creating the Market University

How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine

Bibliographic Data

ID23398702
AuthorsElizabeth Popp Berman (0000-0002-5299-9042, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume1
Pages280
Publication date2012-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byCreating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine, James L Rudolph, 2013
VenueCreating the Market University (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9781400840472
OpenAlexW1552902948
Open LibraryOL29113587M
ISBN9781400840472
LanguageEN
Citations received137

American universities today serve as economic engines, performing the scientific research that will create new industries, drive economic growth, and keep the United States globally competitive. But only a few decades ago, these same universities self-consciously held themselves apart from the world of commerce. Creating the Market University is the first book to systematically examine why academic science made such a dramatic move toward the market. Drawing on extensive historical research, Elizabeth Popp Berman shows how the government--influenced by the argument that innovation drives the economy--brought about this transformation. Americans have a long tradition of making heroes out of their inventors. But before the 1960s and '70s neither policymakers nor economists paid much attention to the critical economic role played by innovation. However, during the late 1970s, a confluence of events--industry concern with the perceived deterioration of innovation in the United States, a growing body of economic research on innovation's importance, and the stagnation of the larger economy--led to a broad political interest in fostering invention. The policy decisions shaped by this change were diverse, influencing arenas from patents and taxes to pensions and science policy, and encouraged practices that would focus specifically on the economic value of academic science. By the early 1980s, universities were nurturing the rapid growth of areas such as biotech entrepreneurship, patenting, and university-industry research centers. Contributing to debates about the relationship between universities, government, and industry, Creating the Market University sheds light on how knowledge and politics intersect to structure the economy.

Argument (complex analysis) · Entrepreneurship · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Politics · Research, Science, and Academia · Science, study and teaching · united states · Universities and colleges

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