The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program - Couverture rigide

Morris, Peter J. T.

 
9780812282054: The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0812282051 ISBN 13 : 9780812282054
Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989

Synopsis

This history of the government-funded synthetic rubber research program (1942-1956) offers a rare analysis of a cooperative research program geared to the improvement of existing products and the creation of new ones. The founders of the program believed the best way to further research in the new field was through collaboration among corporations, universities, and the federal government. Morris concludes that, in fact, the effort was ultimately a failure and that vigorous competition proves the best way to stimulate innovation. Government programs, like the rubber research program, are far better at improving existing products, the author contends, than creating wholly new ones.

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À propos de l?auteur

Arnold Thackray's many roles in the public life of scholarship include founding and building both the Science History Institute and the University of Pennsylvania's Department of History and Sociology of Science. Earlier, he was central to the creation of what would become the Churchill Archives Centre (the largest repository of Winston Churchill's papers) at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. He also served as treasurer of the American Council of Learned Societies for over a decade. Thackray has written or edited many books on the modern technosciences, from Atoms and Powers: An Essay on Newtonian Matter-Theory and the Development of Chemistry to Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary.

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Éditeur
University of Pennsylvania Press
Date d'édition
1989
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0812282051
ISBN 13 
9780812282054
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
204
Coordonnées du fabricant
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