Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alex CummingsSeries:Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. CapitalismPublish date:2020-04-28Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231184915ISBN-10:231184913UPC:9780231184915Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:United States, IndustriesBook Topic:20th Century, State & Local, Computers & Information TechnologySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCV5KSHV79
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 lure a new class of highly educated workers. In the process, they created a blueprint for what would become known...
Series: Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231184915ISBN-10:231184913UPC:9780231184915Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:United States, IndustriesBook Topic:20th Century, State & Local, Computers & Information TechnologySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCV5KSHV79
Alex Sayf Cummings is associate professor of history at Georgia State University. She is the author of Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century (2013).
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