The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy.

The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy

Edited by Adam B. Jaffe and Benjamin F. Jones

National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report

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In 1945, Vannevar Bush, founder of Raytheon and one-time engineering dean at MIT, delivered a report to the president of the United States that argued for the importance of public support for science, and the importance of science for the future of the nation. The report, Science: The Endless Frontier, set America on a path toward strong and well-funded institutions of science, creating an intellectual architecture that still defines scientific endeavor today.

In The Changing Frontier, Adam B. Jaffe and Benjamin F. Jones bring together a...