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Profits of Science: The American Marriage of Business and Technology
Robert Teitelman
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Description for Profits of Science: The American Marriage of Business and Technology
Hardcover. "Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-246) and index. Commissioning organisation: Robert Teitelman. xi, 258 p. 25 cm. Quarter cloth over boards. Fine clean copy with title in light blue on spine, well defined edges and tight binding, clean and crisp pages, with original dw, nearly as new." Keywords: "Business, Finance & Law - Professional Finance - General,Subjects - Business, Finance & Law - Professional Finance - General,Subjects - History - General"
Looking at what happens when science marries money, this book focuses on the interaction of finance with the key frontier technologies of today's era - television, microelectronics and computers, pharmaceuticals, wartime radar and biotechnology. This book reveals how the source of money, whether from corporations, government, venture capital or public markets - shapes the resulting technology. It also shows how the closing gap between basic and applied science results in a particular kind of entrepreneurial enterprise that can exploit it. The book dispenses with the myth that bigness is best. Robert Teitelman is the author of "Gene Dreams: Wall Street", ... Read more
Looking at what happens when science marries money, this book focuses on the interaction of finance with the key frontier technologies of today's era - television, microelectronics and computers, pharmaceuticals, wartime radar and biotechnology. This book reveals how the source of money, whether from corporations, government, venture capital or public markets - shapes the resulting technology. It also shows how the closing gap between basic and applied science results in a particular kind of entrepreneurial enterprise that can exploit it. The book dispenses with the myth that bigness is best. Robert Teitelman is the author of "Gene Dreams: Wall Street", ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Basic Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780465039838
SKU
KEX0140156
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