{"product_id":"creating-the-market-university-9780691166568","title":"Creating the Market University","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican universities today serve as economic engines, performing the scientific research that will create new industries, drive economic growth, and keep the United States globally competitive. But only a few decades ago, these same universities self-consciously held themselves apart from the world of commerce. Creating the Market University is th\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2013 Pierre Bourdieu Award for Best Book, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2013 Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2011 President's Book Award, Social Science History Association \"Creating the Market University succeeds in providing detailed, on-the-ground descriptions of the diverse decisions and events that worked together to create what amounts to a new social compact with academic science... [T]his is a valuable work that offers significant insights into how science in the academy arrived at where it is today.\"--John Rudolph, Journal of American History \"This volume provides the most thorough and balanced account of the advent of commercialization in academic science and its underlying causes.\"--Roger L. Geige, American Historical Review \"This is a great book for wonks. On page after page, data regarding academia, high-tech innovation and entrepreneurship stand up, and shout for attention.\"--Stephen B. Adams, Enterprise \u0026amp; Society \"For those interested in the politics and ideologies lying behind universities and science policy, this volume makes a thought-provoking and original contribution... [I]t deserves to be widely read amongst those studying the relationships between universities, governments and industry.\"--Paul Benneworth, Minerva \"This is a well-written and meticulously researched book that can be recommended to everyone interested in science and technology policy. Berman's thesis that the late 1970s and early 1980s were a turning point in American R\u0026amp;D policy is provocative and worthy of debate.\"--Martin Kenney, Technology \u0026amp; Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix      Chapter 1: Academic Science as an Economic Engine 1  The Changing Nature of Academic Science 4  Studying the Changes in Academic Science 8  Explaining the Rise of Market Logic in Academic Science 12  Overview of the Book 17      Chapter 2: Market Logic in the Era of Pure Science 19  Federal Funding and the Support of Science Logic 21  Using Market Logic in the 1950s and 1960s 23  Limits to the Spread of Market Logic 29  The Pillars of the Postwar System Begin to Crumble 35  The Effects of the Dissolving Federal Consensus 37      Chapter 3: Innovation Drives the Economy-an Old Idea with New Implications 40  Market-Logic Practices of the 1970s and Their Limits 42  The Political Power of an Economic Idea 44  The Innovation Frame and the University 55      Chapter 4: Faculty Entrepreneurship in the Biosciences 58  Before Biotech 60  Early Entrepreneurship 63  1978: A Turning Point 69  Academic Entrepreneurship: Money Changes Everything 76  Why Did Bioscience Entrepreneurship Take Off? 87      Chapter 5: Patenting University Inventions 94  University Patenting during the Science-Logic Era 96  Barriers to the Expansion of University Patenting 104  Innovation, the Economy, and Government Patent Policy 106  University Patenting after 1980 111  Why Did University Patenting Take Off? 114       Chapter 6: Creating University-Industry Research Centers 119  UIRCs versus Biotech Entrepreneurship and University Patenting 119  The Trajectory of University-Industry Research Centers 122  The Emergence of Federal and State Support for UIRCs 131  The Expansion of State and Federal Support for UIRCs in the 1980s 139  Why Did University-Industry Research Centers Spread? 141      Chapter 7: The Spread of Market Logic 146  The Expansion of Biotech Entrepreneurship, Patenting, and UIRCs 147  Market Logic Elsewhere in Academic Science 149  University Administrators and the Rhetoric of Innovation 154  Science Logic and Market Logic: An Uneasy Coexistence 156      Chapter 8: Conclusion 158  How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine:Considering the Evidence 159  Reconsidering Alternative Arguments 162  Speaking to Larger Conversations 167      Notes 179  Bibliography 221  Index 261","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403817099607,"sku":"9780691166568","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691166568.jpg?v=1730484634","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/creating-the-market-university-9780691166568","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}