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As the university transformed itself into a center of innovation, and biotechnology became a billion-dollar industry, commercialization of university inventions became both lucrative and urgent. In the United States, this shift decisively converted the academic scientist into an entrepreneur. From there, legal structures that facilitated university scientists'' patenting and commercialization spread across the world, including to Japan, where earlier modes of doing science made such diffusion more difficultand more interesting.

Cosmopolitan Scientists delineates what happens when global policies diffuse to different cultural and institutional contexts. Instead of simply accepting or resisting the change, Japanese university scientists creatively enacted the new rules, making unique local variations of the global policyand thus making it Japanese.

Drawing on vivid accounts from bioscientists who experienced and enacted the shift toward commercialization, the book

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 9/10/2024
      ISBN13: 9781503640405, 978-1503640405
      ISBN10: 150364040X
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      Book Synopsis

      As the university transformed itself into a center of innovation, and biotechnology became a billion-dollar industry, commercialization of university inventions became both lucrative and urgent. In the United States, this shift decisively converted the academic scientist into an entrepreneur. From there, legal structures that facilitated university scientists'' patenting and commercialization spread across the world, including to Japan, where earlier modes of doing science made such diffusion more difficultand more interesting.

      Cosmopolitan Scientists delineates what happens when global policies diffuse to different cultural and institutional contexts. Instead of simply accepting or resisting the change, Japanese university scientists creatively enacted the new rules, making unique local variations of the global policyand thus making it Japanese.

      Drawing on vivid accounts from bioscientists who experienced and enacted the shift toward commercialization, the book

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