The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program:

This history of the government-funded synthetic rubber research program (1942-19 6) offers a rare analysis of a cooperative research program geared to the improvement of existing products and the creation of new ones. The founders of the program believed the best way to further research in the new f...

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Main Author: Morris, Peter J. T. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. University of Pennsylvania Press [2017]
Edition:Reprint 2016
Series:Chemical Sciences in Society
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Online Access:DE-859
DE-860
DE-739
DE-1046
DE-1043
DE-858
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Summary:This history of the government-funded synthetic rubber research program (1942-19 6) offers a rare analysis of a cooperative research program geared to the improvement of existing products and the creation of new ones. The founders of the program believed the best way to further research in the new field was through collaboration among corporations, universities, and the federal government. Morris concludes that, in fact, the effort was ultimately a failure and that vigorous competition proves the best way to stimulate innovation. Government programs, like the rubber research program, are far better at improving existing products, the author contends, than creating wholly new ones
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Apr. 18, 2017)
Physical Description:1 online resource 2 illus
ISBN:9781512818161
DOI:10.9783/9781512818161

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