Product Description: This book includes over 30 real-life, up-to-date, award-winning case studies in scientific fields such as biotechnology, biomedicine, high-tech engineering and information technology. The case studies are arranged in modules that track the typical life cycle of creating and growing a new venture, which presents a comprehensive picture of entrepreneurial activities...read more

Product Description: This volume presents the most important contributions of the last decade in the fields of science and innovation, demonstrating the key relationship between the two. Early chapters emphasize the intrinsic characteristics of knowledge as an economic activity, and later chapters document the importance of science as an input to technology and innovation...read more

Product Description: A handy guide for students seeking a scientific career in industryWhen choosing a career in industry, many of today's graduates with degrees in science and technology don't know exactly what they are looking for, the options they have available, how to position themselves to achieve their goals, or even how to define their own meanings of success...read more

Product Description: In Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry, David Hess examines how social movements and other forms of activism affect innovation in science, technology, and industry. Synthesizing and extending work in social studies of science and technology, social movements, and globalization, Hess explores the interaction of grassroots environmental action and mainstream industry and offers a conceptual framework for understanding it...read more

Product Description: There is real value in trying to connect science to business, and this should not be overlooked in the drive to connect business to science. Science is far too important just to be left to the scientists. All of science is too large a prospect, so the authors of this book limit themselves to looking at disorder...read more

Cites the role of quantum mechanics in the U.S. GDP, arguing for a need to strengthen societal views of economics, finance, and accounting in order to enable sound investment decisions in the twenty-first century. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Economists need to understand some fundamental aspects of science in order to measure and analyze the process of technological change. This book explores the interrelationships between economics, science and technology in order to find ways of improving economists' approaches to technical change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Examines the role of professional scientists and engineers (PSEs) in the dynamics for technological change. It should prove helpful to academics and policy makers, not only in ensuring that appropriate numbers and qualities of PSEs are produced, but that existing individuals are fully utilized...read more