The Academic Research Enterprise within the Industrialized Nations

Comparative Perspectives

• Author(s): National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable,
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Pages: 124
• ISBN_10: 0309042496
  ISBN_13: 9780309042499
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General ,

Description:... This report identifies major global trends in scientific research, describes the changes occurring within six industrialized countries in response to these trends, and discusses the challenges facing these countries in the future. At the symposium, historians of science and higher education traced developments and described current conditions of research systems in "new world" countries, represented by Japan, Russia, and the United States, and in the "old world," represented by Germany, France, and Great Britain. ISBN 0-309-04249-6: $15.00.