The organization of innovation - The history of an obsession

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 52, Issue 52, 2013, Pages 13874-13878

  Hirschi, Caspar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

applied research; fundamental research; innovation; research funding

Indexed keywords

APPLIED RESEARCH; ECONOMIC GROWTHS; FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH; FUNDING AGENCIES; INDUSTRIAL SETTINGS; RESEARCH FUNDING; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION;

ECONOMICS; INNOVATION;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84890621135     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201307953     Document Type: Review

References (7)

1. An essay by the American economist Robert Gordon serves as the key reference:, R. Gordon, Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts The Six Headwinds, National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 18315, August 2012.
2. S. Shapin, The Scientific Life. A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008.
3. "The Bell Telephone Laboratories-An Example of an Institute of Creative Technology":, M. J. Kelly, Proc. R. Soc. London 1950, 203, 287-301.
4. This statement comes from a 1992 interview, which is quoted in E. E. David et al., John Robinson Pierce in National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs, 2004, Nr. 85.
5. J. Gertner, The Idea Factory. Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, Penguin, New York, 2012.
6. "'Industrial Versailles': Eero Saarinen's Corporate Campuses for GM, IBM, and AT&T": S. G. Knowles, S. W. Leslie, Isis 2001, 92, 1-33.
7. C. E. K. Mees, The Organization of Industrial Scientific Research, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1950, p. 15.