Profits of Science

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A penetrating dissection of technological success and failure since 1945, Profits of Science provides an insightful, down-toearth look at what we have learned since World War II about the management of technology. What happens when science marries money? Róbert Teitelman focuses on the interaction of business with the key frontier technologies of our era: television, microelectronics and computers, pharmaceuticals, wartime radar, and biotechnology. To shed light on broad trends in economic and scientific thought and the popular business culture, Teitelman looks at specific industries, examining how they changed and why. For example, how did quantum physics and solid-state electronics interact in the 1950s? Why did the television-set business evolve so differently from the semiconductor business? Profits of Science sketches out a broad scheme for understanding why technologies wax and wane, and why economies shift over time from a belief in the large corporation to a faith in the... Tovább

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A penetrating dissection of technological success and failure since 1945, Profits of Science provides an insightful, down-toearth look at what we have learned since World War II about the management of technology. What happens when science marries money? Róbert Teitelman focuses on the interaction of business with the key frontier technologies of our era: television, microelectronics and computers, pharmaceuticals, wartime radar, and biotechnology. To shed light on broad trends in economic and scientific thought and the popular business culture, Teitelman looks at specific industries, examining how they changed and why. For example, how did quantum physics and solid-state electronics interact in the 1950s? Why did the television-set business evolve so differently from the semiconductor business? Profits of Science sketches out a broad scheme for understanding why technologies wax and wane, and why economies shift over time from a belief in the large corporation to a faith in the small. In particular, Teitelman stresses the role that money-from corporations, government, venture capital, public markets-plays in shaping the way technologies are exploited. His notion of a closing gap between science and technology that fuels innovation and favors entrepreneurial firms over the giant corporation helps to explain somé of the seeming paradoxes of current economic life. What creates fertile ground for innovation: size or speed? Have economies of scale been banished in the information age? What role do regulation, markét barriers, and taxation play in the battle between large, established companies and small, insurgent enterprises? (conünued on backflap) Vissza