Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation. Donald E. Stokes

Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation


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Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation Donald E. Stokes
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press




Pasteur's quadrant: Basic science and technological innovation. The issues are informed by my experiences in the TSSG, where we conduct most of our research in Pasteur's Quadrant and in Edison's Quadrant. Her work generally revolves around the intersection of commercial science, with its secrecy and licenses, and “open science” following the usual academia playbook. In Pasteur's Quadrant, Donald Stokes outlines the historically different relationships between science and technology. Issues of terminology around the idea of "Basic Research" in Science, Engineering and Technology. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press; 1997. Traditional government policies suggest that upstream investment in scientific research is necessary and sufficient to generate technological innovations. One way of making this distinction is in the terms introduced in the infrequently read but oft cited 1997 book by Stokes, called Pasteur's Quadrant – Basic Science and Technological Innovation. Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation. This journal are later associated with a patent by their authors, and nearly everything in the journal plausibly discusses something that could be patented; research in this intersection of basic and applied technology is what Stokes famously called “Pasteur's Quadrant. Stokes DE: Pasteur's quadrant: Basic science and technological innovation. Unless on subscribes to some species of idealism or essentialism, strictly speaking the term basic or fundamental research has no meaning outside its use as a statistical household word: in other words it is historically and socially contingent . Stokes DE: Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation. Yet a number of senior public servants, myself included, believe passionately in the pivotal role of research and technology in building a modern economy and society, and worked with successive governments over the last 15 years .. Pasteurs Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation. Bush, Science: The Endless Frontier (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1945), 1–11 (accessed 28 May 2009); discussed in D. Innovation, Technology Transfer. Kvant Selecta : Algebra and Analysis. Washington D C: Brookings Institution Press.