Description: Further DetailsTitle: Defining Values for Research and TechnologyCondition: NewEAN: 9780742550261ISBN: 9780742550261Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/17/2006Item Height: 228mmItem Length: 153mmItem Width: 19mmItem Weight: 372gContributor: William T. Greenough (Edited by), Philip J. McConnaughay (Edited by), Jay P. Kesan (Edited by), John H. Gibbons (Contributions by), Erich Bloch (Contributions by), Ann B. Carlson (Contributions by), Rebecca Eisenberg (Contributions by), Kelly Cassaday (Contributions by), Lord Meghnad Desai (Contributions by), Michael K. Hansen (Contributions by), M S. Swaminathan (Contributions by), Timothy G. Reeves (Contributions by), Toby Miller (Contributions by), James D. Savage (Contributions by), Masao Miyoshi (Contributions by), Kathie L. Olsen (Contributions by), Donald N. Langenberg (Contributions by), Larry Smarr (Contributions by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: The University's Changing RoleISBN-10: 0742550265Description: Since the end of the Cold War, federal funding for research at American universities has sharply decreased, leaving administrators searching for a new benefactor. At the same time, changes in federal policy permitting universities to patent, license, and profit from their discoveries combined with the emergence of new fields that thinned the lines between "basic" and "applied" research to make universities an attractive partner to private industry. This reorientation from public to private funding has created new challenges for the academy. In thirteen insightful and wide-ranging essays, Defining Values for Research and Technology examines the modern research university in the throes of transition. Contributors discuss the tensions of research versus education, public funding versus corporatization, and the academic freedom of open discussion versus the secrecy needed to ensure financial gain. Will universities and their professors pursue industrial imperatives at the expense of traditional academic values, or will they harness the energy of industry to advance a mission of research for the public good? Defining Values for Research and Technology, while acknowledging potential dangers, argues that university-industry partnerships have the potential to both benefit industrial expansion and enrich academic life. In doing so, it raises important points about the connections between "pure" science and industrialized technology more generally, and the role that policy plays in science. Both those interested in the evolution of the academy and scholars of the history and sociology of science will find something worthwhile within its pages.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Children's Learning & Education, Business & Finance, Science Nature & MathAuthor: William T. GreenoughRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Defining Values for Research and Technology
Title: Defining Values for Research and Technology
EAN: 9780742550261
ISBN: 9780742550261
Release Date: 11/17/2006
Release Year: 2006
Contributor: Larry Smarr (Contributions by)
Subtitle: The University's Changing Role
ISBN-10: 0742550265
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Defining Values for Research and Technology : the University's Changing Role
Language: English
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2006
Subject: Computers & Technology, Educational Policy & Reform / Federal Legislation, Finance, Higher, Research, Government & Business, Administration / Higher
Item Weight: 13.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Education, Business & Economics
Author: Ann B. Carlson
Item Width: 6 in
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