The American Research University from World War II to World Wide Web: Governments, the private sector, and the emerging Meta-University

The American Research University from World War II to World Wide Web: Governments, the Private Sector, and the Emerging Meta-University

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Vest, Charles M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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24. Much of this section is drawn from Charles M. Vest, Pursuing the Endless Frontier: Essays on MIT and the Role of the Research University (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005): 271-274.
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