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Pursuing the endless frontier : essays on MIT and the role of research universities
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Pursuing the endless frontier : essays on MIT and the role of research universities

Author: Charles M Vest
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Charles M Vest
ISBN: 0262220725 9780262220729
OCLC Number: 55109186
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xxvi, 292 p. ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: essays by Charles M. Vest.

Abstract:

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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