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catalog abstract "A penetrating dissection of technological success and failure since 1945, Profits of Science provides an insightful, down-to-earth look at what we have learned since World War II about the management of technology. What happens when science marries money? Robert 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 some 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, market barriers, and taxation play in the battle between large, established companies and small, insurgent enterprises. . The book is filled with fascinating portraits of critical figures in the science, engineering, and business communities - everyone from David Sarnoff to Steve Jobs - and engrossing accounts of such esoteric material as quantum physics, molecular biology, and corporate finance. In our continuing quest to master the R & D process and to generate prosperity through technological innovation, amid all the talk about "changing the system" to compete better internationally, this examination of the evolution of our technological economy provides invaluable guideposts for future action.".
catalog contributor b5622360.
catalog created "c1994.".
catalog date "1994".
catalog date "c1994.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
catalog description ". The book is filled with fascinating portraits of critical figures in the science, engineering, and business communities - everyone from David Sarnoff to Steve Jobs - and engrossing accounts of such esoteric material as quantum physics, molecular biology, and corporate finance.".
catalog description "1. The Gap between Science and Technology -- 2. The World of Tomorrow -- 3. Optimists and Pragmatists -- 4. The Conservatism of Television -- 5. Centrifugal Tendencies -- 6. The Entrepreneurial Transistor -- 7. The Ethos of the Market -- 8. The Balance of Microelectronic Power -- 9. Betting on Drug Discovery -- 10. Biotechnology's Incomplete Revolution -- 11. Gravity's Rainbow.".
catalog description "A penetrating dissection of technological success and failure since 1945, Profits of Science provides an insightful, down-to-earth look at what we have learned since World War II about the management of technology.".
catalog description "His notion of a closing gap between science and technology that fuels innovation and favors entrepreneurial firms over the giant corporation helps to explain some 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, market barriers, and taxation play in the battle between large, established companies and small, insurgent enterprises.".
catalog description "In our continuing quest to master the R & D process and to generate prosperity through technological innovation, amid all the talk about "changing the system" to compete better internationally, this examination of the evolution of our technological economy provides invaluable guideposts for future action.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-246) and index.".
catalog description "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.".
catalog description "What happens when science marries money? Robert 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?".
catalog description "Why did the television-set business evolve so differently from the semiconductor business?".
catalog extent "xi, 258 p. ;".
catalog hasFormat "Profits of science.".
catalog identifier "0465039839 :".
catalog isFormatOf "Profits of science.".
catalog issued "1994".
catalog issued "c1994.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "New York, NY : BasicBooks,".
catalog relation "Profits of science.".
catalog spatial "United States".
catalog spatial "United States.".
catalog subject "303.48/3/0973 20".
catalog subject "Commerce United States Popular Works.".
catalog subject "Public Policy trends United States Popular Works.".
catalog subject "Q 127 .U6 T265p 1994".
catalog subject "Q127.U6 T384 1994".
catalog subject "Science Economic aspects United States.".
catalog subject "Science Political aspects United States.".
catalog subject "Science United States History Popular Works.".
catalog subject "Science United States.".
catalog subject "Technology Economic aspects United States.".
catalog subject "Technology Political aspects United States.".
catalog subject "Technology United States.".
catalog subject "Technology economics United States Popular Works.".
catalog tableOfContents "1. The Gap between Science and Technology -- 2. The World of Tomorrow -- 3. Optimists and Pragmatists -- 4. The Conservatism of Television -- 5. Centrifugal Tendencies -- 6. The Entrepreneurial Transistor -- 7. The Ethos of the Market -- 8. The Balance of Microelectronic Power -- 9. Betting on Drug Discovery -- 10. Biotechnology's Incomplete Revolution -- 11. Gravity's Rainbow.".
catalog title "Profits of science : the American marriage of business and technology / Robert Teitelman.".
catalog type "text".