Brain magnet :: Research Triangle Park and the idea of the idea economy /
"Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina's low-wage economy. They pitched the universities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill as the kernel of a tech hub, Research Triangle Park, which would lur...
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| Schriftenreihe: | Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism.
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina's low-wage economy. They pitched the universities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill as the kernel of a tech hub, Research Triangle Park, which would lure a new class of highly educated workers. In the process, they created a blueprint for what would become known as the knowledge economy: a future built on intellectual labor and the production of intellectual property. Alex Sayf Cummings reveals the significance of Research Triangle Park to the emergence of the high-tech economy in a postindustrial United States. She analyzes the use of ideas of culture and creativity to fuel economic development, how workers experienced life in the Triangle, and the role of the federal government in bringing the modern technology industry into being. As Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill were transformed by high-tech development, the old South gave way to a distinctly new one, which welded the intellectual power of universities to a vision of the suburban good life. Cummings pinpoints how the story of the Research Triangle sheds new light on the origins of today's urban landscape, in which innovation, as exemplified by the tech industry, is lauded as the engine of economic growth against a backdrop of gentrification and inequality. Placing the knowledge economy in a broader cultural and intellectual context, Brain Magnet offers vital insight into how tech-driven development occurs and the people and places left in its wake"-- |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| spelling | Cummings, Alex Sayf, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012066044 Brain magnet : Research Triangle Park and the idea of the idea economy / Alex Sayf Cummings. New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) text txt rdacontent computer n rdamedia online resource nc rdacarrier Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism Includes bibliographical references and index. "Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina's low-wage economy. They pitched the universities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill as the kernel of a tech hub, Research Triangle Park, which would lure a new class of highly educated workers. In the process, they created a blueprint for what would become known as the knowledge economy: a future built on intellectual labor and the production of intellectual property. Alex Sayf Cummings reveals the significance of Research Triangle Park to the emergence of the high-tech economy in a postindustrial United States. She analyzes the use of ideas of culture and creativity to fuel economic development, how workers experienced life in the Triangle, and the role of the federal government in bringing the modern technology industry into being. As Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill were transformed by high-tech development, the old South gave way to a distinctly new one, which welded the intellectual power of universities to a vision of the suburban good life. Cummings pinpoints how the story of the Research Triangle sheds new light on the origins of today's urban landscape, in which innovation, as exemplified by the tech industry, is lauded as the engine of economic growth against a backdrop of gentrification and inequality. Placing the knowledge economy in a broader cultural and intellectual context, Brain Magnet offers vital insight into how tech-driven development occurs and the people and places left in its wake"-- Provided by publisher. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 02, 2020). Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: RTP Donuts -- Introduction: From Textiles and Tobacco to the City of Ideas -- 1. Imagining the Triangle: The Unlikely Origins of the Creative City in the Cold War South -- 2. "Not a Second Ruhr": Building a Postindustrial Economy in the 1960s -- 3. Welcome to Parkwood: Newcomers Find Their Way in the Emerging Triangle -- Interlude: Sweet Gums, Traffic Jams, and Cilantro -- 4. "The Greatest Concentration of PhDs in the Country": The Idea Economy Comes of Age in the Triangle -- 5. Cary, SAS, and the Search for the Good Life -- Interlude: The Islamic School in Parkwood -- 6. "We Think a Lot": The Triangle in the Age of Gentrification -- Epilogue: The Figure of the Knowledge Worker -- Notes -- Index Research Triangle Park (N.C.) History. Research Triangle Park (N.C.) fast Knowledge economy North Carolina Research Triangle History. Technology Research North Carolina Research Triangle History. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Industries Computers & Information Technology. bisacsh HISTORY / United States / 20th Century bisacsh Knowledge economy fast Technology Research fast North Carolina Research Triangle fast History fast has work: Brain magnet (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGWTbDt8qD7grKDRyjc9Dq https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Cummings, Alex Sayf. Brain magnet. New York : Columbia University Press, 2020 9780231184908 (DLC) 2019047171 Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014094647 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBU FWS_PDA_EBU https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2292444 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Cummings, Alex Sayf Brain magnet : Research Triangle Park and the idea of the idea economy / Columbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: RTP Donuts -- Introduction: From Textiles and Tobacco to the City of Ideas -- 1. Imagining the Triangle: The Unlikely Origins of the Creative City in the Cold War South -- 2. "Not a Second Ruhr": Building a Postindustrial Economy in the 1960s -- 3. Welcome to Parkwood: Newcomers Find Their Way in the Emerging Triangle -- Interlude: Sweet Gums, Traffic Jams, and Cilantro -- 4. "The Greatest Concentration of PhDs in the Country": The Idea Economy Comes of Age in the Triangle -- 5. Cary, SAS, and the Search for the Good Life -- Interlude: The Islamic School in Parkwood -- 6. "We Think a Lot": The Triangle in the Age of Gentrification -- Epilogue: The Figure of the Knowledge Worker -- Notes -- Index Research Triangle Park (N.C.) History. Research Triangle Park (N.C.) fast Knowledge economy North Carolina Research Triangle History. Technology Research North Carolina Research Triangle History. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Industries Computers & Information Technology. bisacsh HISTORY / United States / 20th Century bisacsh Knowledge economy fast Technology Research fast |
| title | Brain magnet : Research Triangle Park and the idea of the idea economy / |
| title_alt | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: RTP Donuts -- Introduction: From Textiles and Tobacco to the City of Ideas -- 1. Imagining the Triangle: The Unlikely Origins of the Creative City in the Cold War South -- 2. "Not a Second Ruhr": Building a Postindustrial Economy in the 1960s -- 3. Welcome to Parkwood: Newcomers Find Their Way in the Emerging Triangle -- Interlude: Sweet Gums, Traffic Jams, and Cilantro -- 4. "The Greatest Concentration of PhDs in the Country": The Idea Economy Comes of Age in the Triangle -- 5. Cary, SAS, and the Search for the Good Life -- Interlude: The Islamic School in Parkwood -- 6. "We Think a Lot": The Triangle in the Age of Gentrification -- Epilogue: The Figure of the Knowledge Worker -- Notes -- Index |
| title_auth | Brain magnet : Research Triangle Park and the idea of the idea economy / |
| title_exact_search | Brain magnet : Research Triangle Park and the idea of the idea economy / |
| title_full | Brain magnet : Research Triangle Park and the idea of the idea economy / Alex Sayf Cummings. |
| title_fullStr | Brain magnet : Research Triangle Park and the idea of the idea economy / Alex Sayf Cummings. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Brain magnet : Research Triangle Park and the idea of the idea economy / Alex Sayf Cummings. |
| title_short | Brain magnet : |
| title_sort | brain magnet research triangle park and the idea of the idea economy |
| title_sub | Research Triangle Park and the idea of the idea economy / |
| topic | Research Triangle Park (N.C.) History. Research Triangle Park (N.C.) fast Knowledge economy North Carolina Research Triangle History. Technology Research North Carolina Research Triangle History. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Industries Computers & Information Technology. bisacsh HISTORY / United States / 20th Century bisacsh Knowledge economy fast Technology Research fast |
| topic_facet | Research Triangle Park (N.C.) History. Research Triangle Park (N.C.) Knowledge economy North Carolina Research Triangle History. Technology Research North Carolina Research Triangle History. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Industries Computers & Information Technology. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century Knowledge economy Technology Research North Carolina Research Triangle History |
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