"Limited by Design" is the first comprehensive study of the
varying roles played by the more than 16,000 research and
development laboratories in the U.S. national innovation system.
Michael Crow and Barry Bozeman offer policy makers and scientists a
blueprint for making more informed decisions about how to best
utilize and develop the capabilities of these facilities. Some
labs, such as Bell Labs, Westinghouse, and Eastman Kodak, have been
global players since the turn of the century. Others, such as Los
Alamos National Laboratory, have been mainstays of the
military/energy industrial complex since they evolved in the 1940s.
These and other institutions have come to serve as the
infrastructure upon which a range of industries have relied and
have had a tremendous impact on U.S. social and economic
history.
Michael Crow and Barry Bozeman illustrate the histories,
missions, structure, and behavior of individual laboratories, and
explore the policy contexts in which they are embedded. In studying
this large and varied collection of labs, Crow, Bozeman, and their
colleagues develop a new framework for understanding the structure
and behavior of laboratories that also provides a basis for
rationalizing federal science and technology policy to create more
effective laboratories.
The book draws upon interviews and surveys collected from
thousands of scientists, administrators, and policy makers, and
features boxed "lab windows" throughout that provide detailed
information on the variety of laboratories active in the U.S.
national innovation system.
"Limited by Design" addresses a range of questions in order to
enable policy makers, university administrators, and scientists to
plan effectively for the future of research and development.
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