Limited by Design

R&D Laboratories in the U.S. National Innovation System

Michael Crow, Barry Bozeman

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Columbia University Press
25 September 1998

Science funding & policy; Technology: general issues

"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."

By: Michael Crow, Barry Bozeman
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 709g
ISBN: 9780231109826
ISBN 10: 0231109822
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 25 September 1998
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Crow is vice provost of Columbia University and professor of science and technology policy. Barry Bozeman is director of the School of Public Policy and professor of public policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Reviews for Limited by Design: R&D Laboratories in the U.S. National Innovation System

There are more than 16,000 R&D labs in the U.S. today, including 12,000 in private industry. Yet until this book became available, there existed no systematic examination that fully revealed the remarkable institutional diversity that supported research in this country. In this book, American R&D labs have finally found their Linnaeus.