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The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program
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2017
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This history of the government-funded synthetic rubber research program (1942-1956) offers a rare analysis of a cooperative research program geared to the improvement of existing products and the creation of new ones. The founders of the program believed the best way to further research in the new field was through collaboration among corporations, universities, and the federal government. Morris concludes that, in fact, the effort was ultimately a failure and that vigorous competition proves the best way to stimulate innovation. Government programs, like the rubber research program, are far better at improving existing products, the author contends, than creating wholly new ones.
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Contributor: Arnold Thackray
Arnold Thackray's many roles in the public life of scholarship include founding and building both the Science History Institute and the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of History and Sociology of Science. Earlier, he was central to the creation of what would become the Churchill Archives Centre (the largest repository of Winston Churchill's papers) at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. He also served as treasurer of the American Council of Learned Societies for over a decade. Thackray has written or edited many books on the modern technosciences, from Atoms and Powers: An Essay on Newtonian Matter-Theory and the Development of Chemistry to Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary.
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"This is a major book on a major theme. With exemplary scholarship. Morris probes the complex interactions of academe, government, and industry, and the interplay of science and technology in the creation of a vital modern resource. The story is one full of messages for our contemporary world of high technology."
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"This is an absorbing, exciting book. It describes in vivid detail the triumphs, the struggles, and the realities of research. Morris provides an acute, perceptive analysis of the political and social forces shaping the process of innovation."
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Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1. The U.S. Government Rubber Program
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2. Innovation in the Synthetic Rubber Industry
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3. The Universities
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4. Quality Control and Polymer Evaluation
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5. The Rubber Research Program and Polymer Science
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Summary of Major Conclusions
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Appendix: Introduction to Polymer Chemistry; Select Bibliography
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Works Cited
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Subject Index
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Name Index
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Polymers and Monomers Index
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April 10, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9781512818161
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Reprint 2016
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
