Politics On The Endless Frontier

Author : Daniel Lee Kleinman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015034416522

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Toward what end does the U.S. government support science and technology? How do the legacies and institutions of the past constrain current efforts to restructure federal research policy? Not since the end of World War II have these questions been so pressing, as scientists and policymakers debate anew the desirability and purpose of a federal agenda for funding research. Probing the values that have become embodied in the postwar federal research establishment, Politics on the Endless Frontier clarifies the terms of these debates and reveals what is at stake in attempts to reorganize that establishment. Although it ended up as only one among a host of federal research policymaking agencies, the National Science Foundation was originally conceived as central to the federal research policymaking system. Kleinman's historical examination of the National Science Foundation exposes the sociological and political workings of the system, particularly the way in which a small group of elite scientists shaped the policymaking process and defined the foundation's structure and future. Beginning with Vannevar Bush's 1945 manifesto The Endless Frontier, Kleinman explores elite and populist visions for a postwar research policy agency and shows how the structure of the American state led to the establishment of a fragmented and uncoordinated system for federal research policymaking. His book concludes with an analysis of recent efforts to reorient research policy and to remake federal policymaking institutions in light of the current "crisis" of economic competitiveness. A particularly timely study, Politics on the Endless Frontier will be of interest to historians and sociologists of science and technology and to science policy analysts.

Author : United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development,Vannevar Bush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Research
ISBN : UOM:39015013109148

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Science, the Endless Frontier by United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development,Vannevar Bush Pdf

Author : Daniel Lee Kleinman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 082231598X

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Politics on the Endless Frontier by Daniel Lee Kleinman Pdf

Toward what end does the U.S. government support science and technology? How do the legacies and institutions of the past constrain current efforts to restructure federal research policy? Not since the end of World War II have these questions been so pressing, as scientists and policymakers debate anew the desirability and purpose of a federal agenda for funding research. Probing the values that have become embodied in the postwar federal research establishment, Politics on the Endless Frontier clarifies the terms of these debates and reveals what is at stake in attempts to reorganize that establishment. Although it ended up as only one among a host of federal research policymaking agencies, the National Science Foundation was originally conceived as central to the federal research policymaking system. Kleinman's historical examination of the National Science Foundation exposes the sociological and political workings of the system, particularly the way in which a small group of elite scientists shaped the policymaking process and defined the foundation's structure and future. Beginning with Vannevar Bush's 1945 manifesto The Endless Frontier, Kleinman explores elite and populist visions for a postwar research policy agency and shows how the structure of the American state led to the establishment of a fragmented and uncoordinated system for federal research policymaking. His book concludes with an analysis of recent efforts to reorient research policy and to remake federal policymaking institutions in light of the current "crisis" of economic competitiveness. A particularly timely study, Politics on the Endless Frontier will be of interest to historians and sociologists of science and technology and to science policy analysts.

Author : Vannevar Bush
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691201658

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Science, the Endless Frontier by Vannevar Bush Pdf

The classic case for why government must support science—with a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from science today Science, the Endless Frontier is recognized as the landmark argument for the essential role of science in society and government’s responsibility to support scientific endeavors. First issued when Vannevar Bush was the director of the US Office of Scientific Research and Development during the Second World War, this classic remains vital in making the case that scientific progress is necessary to a nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Bush’s vision set the course for US science policy for more than half a century, building the world’s most productive scientific enterprise. Today, amid a changing funding landscape and challenges to science’s very credibility, Science, the Endless Frontier resonates as a powerful reminder that scientific progress and public well-being alike depend on the successful symbiosis between science and government. This timely new edition presents this iconic text alongside a new companion essay from scientist and former congressman Rush Holt, who offers a brief introduction and consideration of what society needs most from science now. Reflecting on the report’s legacy and relevance along with its limitations, Holt contends that the public’s ability to cope with today’s issues—such as public health, the changing climate and environment, and challenging technologies in modern society—requires a more capacious understanding of what science can contribute. Holt considers how scientists should think of their obligation to society and what the public should demand from science, and he calls for a renewed understanding of science’s value for democracy and society at large. A touchstone for concerned citizens, scientists, and policymakers, Science, the Endless Frontier endures as a passionate articulation of the power and potential of science.

Author : Vannevar Bush,Rush D. Holt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691186627

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Science, the Endless Frontier by Vannevar Bush,Rush D. Holt Pdf

Science, the Endless Frontier is recognized as the landmark argument for the essential role of science in society and government's responsibility to support scientific endeavors. First issued when Vannevar Bush was the director of the US Office of Scientific Research and Development during the Second World War, this classic remains vital in making the case that scientific progress is necessary to a nation's health, security, and prosperity. Bush's vision set the course for US science policy for more than half a century, building the world's most productive scientific enterprise. Today, amid a changing funding landscape and challenges to science's very credibility, Science, the Endless Frontier resonates as a powerful reminder that scientific progress and public well-being alike depend on the successful symbiosis between science and government. This timely new edition presents this iconic text alongside a new companion essay from scientist and former congressman Rush Holt, who offers a brief introduction and consideration of what society needs most from science now. Reflecting on the report's legacy and relevance along with its limitations, Holt contends that the public's ability to cope with today's issues-such as public health, the changing climate and environment, and challenging technologies in modern society-requires a more capacious understanding of what science can contribute. Holt considers how scientists should think of their obligation to society and what the public should demand from science, and he calls for a renewed understanding of science's value for democracy and society at large.

Author : Vannevar Bush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Research
ISBN : UCSD:31822031143431

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Science-- the Endless Frontier by Vannevar Bush Pdf

Author : Charles M. Vest
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262516785

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Pursuing the Endless Frontier by Charles M. Vest Pdf

The former president of MIT discusses challenges and policy issues confronting academia, science and technology, and the world at large. In his fourteen years as president of MIT, Charles Vest worked continuously to realize his vision of rebuilding America's trust in science and technology. In a time when the federal government dramatically reduced its funding of academic research programs and industry shifted its R&D resources into the short-term product-development process, Vest called for new partnerships with business and government. He called for universities to meet the intellectual challenges posed by the innovation-driven, globally connected needs of industry even as he reaffirmed basic academic values and the continuing need for longer-term scientific inquiry. In Pursuing the Endless Frontier, Vest addresses these and other issues in a series of essays written during his tenure as president of MIT. He discusses the research university's need to shift to a broader, more international outlook, the value of diversity in the academic community, the greater leadership role for faculty outside the classroom, and the boundless opportunity of new scientific and technological developments even when coupled with financial constraints. In the provocative essay "What We Don't Know," Vest reminds us of what he calls "the most critical point of all," that science is driven by a deep human need to understand nature, to answer the "big questions"—that what we don't know is more important than what we do. In another essay, on the future of MIT, he celebrates MIT's strengths as being extraordinarily well-suited to the needs of an era of unprecedented change in science and technology. In "Disturbing the Educational Universe: Universities in the Digital Age—Dinosaurs or Prometheans," he describes MIT's innovative OpenCourseWare initiative, which builds on the fundamental nature of the Internet as an enabling and liberating technology. Vest, who is stepping down from MIT's presidency in the fall of 2004, writes with clarity and insight about the issues facing academic institutions in the twenty-first century. His essays in Pursuing the Endless Frontier offer inspiration to educators and researchers seeking the way forward.

Author : Vannevar Bush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:475991772

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Science by Vannevar Bush Pdf

Author : Daniel Lee Kleinman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Research
ISBN : WISC:89048379648

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Groping Toward the Endless Frontier by Daniel Lee Kleinman Pdf

Author : Vannevar Bush
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974205398

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Science, the Endless Frontier by Vannevar Bush Pdf

FOREWORD The National Science Foundation has rendered a useful Science in reprinting Science, the Endless Frontier as part ot its tenth anniversary observance. The Report, as well as the studies that supported it, represents the collective efforts ot a group of distinguished scientists and other scholars who brought their special experience and knowledge to bear on the problem of establishing a strong research and development effort in the postwar period. Their hndings with respect to the relations of government to science and education merit a re-reading in the light of todav's events. Dr. Waterman's Introduction constitutes an effective summary of the extent t(j which the recommendations of Science, the Endless Frontier have been realized during the Fifteen )'ears since it first appeared. I welcome the republication and hope that it will be a genuine serxice to all who have responsibilities for the national effort in scientific research and development. Vannevar Bush

Author : United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development,Vannevar Bush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Research
ISBN : OCLC:316911036

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Science, the Endless Frontier by United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development,Vannevar Bush Pdf

Author : Adam B. Jaffe,Benjamin F. Jones
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226286723

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The Changing Frontier by Adam B. Jaffe,Benjamin F. Jones Pdf

In 1945, Vannevar Bush, founder of Raytheon and one-time engineering dean at MIT, delivered a report to the president of the United States that argued for the importance of public support for science, and the importance of science for the future of the nation. The report, Science: The Endless Frontier, set America on a path toward strong and well-funded institutions of science, creating an intellectual architecture that still defines scientific endeavor today. In The Changing Frontier, Adam B. Jaffe and Benjamin Jones bring together a group of prominent scholars to consider the changes in science and innovation in the ensuing decades. The contributors take on such topics as changes in the organization of scientific research, the geography of innovation, modes of entrepreneurship, and the structure of research institutions and linkages between science and innovation. An important analysis of where science stands today, The Changing Frontier will be invaluable to practitioners and policy makers alike.

Author : United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Research
ISBN : OCLC:45137297

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Science, the Endless Frontier by United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development Pdf

Author : Venkatesh Narayanamurti
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674974159

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Cycles of Invention and Discovery by Venkatesh Narayanamurti Pdf

Using Nobel Prize–winning examples like the transistor, laser, and magnetic resonance imaging, Venky Narayanamurti and Tolu Odumosu explore the daily micro-practices of research and show that distinctions between the search for knowledge and creative problem solving break down when one pays attention to how pathbreaking research actually happens.

Author : David M. Hart
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691146546

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Forged Consensus by David M. Hart Pdf

In this thought-provoking book, David Hart challenges the creation myth of post--World War II federal science and technology policy. According to this myth, the postwar policy sprang full-blown from the mind of Vannevar Bush in the form of Science, the Endless Frontier (1945). Hart puts Bush's efforts in a larger historical and political context, demonstrating in the process that Bush was but one of many contributors to this complex policy and not necessarily the most successful one. Herbert Hoover, Karl Compton, Thurman Arnold, Henry Wallace, Robert Taft, and Curtis LeMay--along with more familiar figures like Bush--are among those whose endeavors he traces. Hart places these policy entrepreneurs in the broad scheme of American political development, connecting each one's vision of the state in this apparently esoteric policy area to the central issues, events, and figures of mid-century America and to key theoretical debates. Hart's work reveals the wide range of ideas, often in conflict with one another, that underlay what later observers interpreted as a "postwar consensus." In Hart's view, these visions--and the interests and institutions that shape their translation into public policy--form the enduring basis of American politics in this important area. Policymakers today are still grappling with the legacies of the forged consensus.