The structure of industrial R&D has undergone considerable change since 1985, particularly
in the United States. But rather than creating an entirely novel system, this restructuring has …

Zeolites provide a nice example of the fruitful symbiosis between mineralogists, structural
crystallogra-phers, inorganic chemists, and materials scientists. 1-15® Indeed, joint …

Penicillin is the drug of the twentieth century. It was the first of the antibiotics that, for
decades after the Second World War, underpinned a popular belief that infectious disease …

This review examines the emergence of dietary supplements and how the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) attempted to regulate these, beginning with the arrival of vitamins and …

The abrupt reversal of culturally ascribed primacy in the science–technology relationship—
namely, from the primacy of science relative to technology prior to circa 1980, to the primacy …

From the earliest use of fire to forge iron tools to the medieval alchemists' search for the
philosopher's stone, the secrets of the elements have been pursued by human civilization …

Limited by Design is the first comprehensive study of the varying roles played by the more
than 16,000 research and development laboratories in the US national innovation system …

Für Fachleute bedarf es kaum des Hinweises, daß das vorliegende Buch keine
Gesamtdarstellung des Themas, Deutsch als internationale Wissenschaftssprache bietet …

As the rate of innovation increases, organizational environments are becoming faster and
more complex, posing greater challenges for organizations to adapt. This study argues that …

This paper examines the origins and outlook for the features of the US national innovtion
system that have historically distinguished this system from those of other industrial …