Academic Science and Technology in the Service of Industry: MIT Creates a "Permeable" Engineering School

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 28-33

  Lécuyer, Christophe ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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