Pasteur's Quadrant: basic science and technological innovation

By - Stokes, Donald E.

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c1997.

ISBN 10 - 0815781784

ISBN 13 - 9780815781783

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Science and state--United States.

Shelf No - 17

Call Number - 338.9730 STO

Physical Description - xiv, 180 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes - Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-173) and index.

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Stokes (politics and public affairs, Princeton U. before his 1997 death) argues that basic science in the post-cold-war environment should be geared specifically to new products or applications, and that science that simply seeks to increase knowledge should not be funded. He takes Louis Pasteur as

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