Science and the university / edited by Paula E. Stephan and Ronald G. Ehrenberg.

• Superior document: Science and technology in society
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Stephan, Paula E.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Science and technology in society.
• Physical Description: x, 304 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Who bears the growing cost of science at universities? / Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Michael J. Rizzo and George H. Jakubson -- How does the government (want to) fund science?: politics, lobbying and academic earmarks / John M. de Figueiredo and Brian S. Silverman -- University science research funding: privatizing policy and practice / Risa L. Lieberwitz -- Patterns of research and licensing activity of science and engineering faculty / Jerry G. Thursby and Marie C. Thursby -- Commercialization and the scientific research process: the example of plant breeding / W. Ronnie Coffman, William H. Lesser and Susan R. McCouch -- The importance of foreign Ph.D. students to U.S. science / Grant G. Black and Paula E. Stephan -- Do foreign students crowd out native students from graduate programs? / George J. Borjas -- Foreign scholars in U.S. science: contributions and costs / Paula E. Stephan and Sharon G. Levin -- The changing composition of American citizen PhDs / Jeffrey A. Groen and Michael J. Rizzo -- Where do new US-trained science engineering PhDs come from? / Richard B. Freeman, Emily Jin, and Chia-Yu Shen -- Global research competition affects U.S. output / Diana M. Hicks -- The workforce for biomedical research-- who will do the work? / Susan A. Gerbi and Howard Garrison.