Public Science, Private Interests : : Culture and Commerce in Canada's Networks of Centres of Excellence / / Janet Atkinson-Grosjean.

The Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program is Canada's flagship research funding initiative and a policy innovation that has been emulated by a number of other countries. The NCE program is historically significant in the political economy of Canadian research: established in 1988 by t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2005
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Two Divides
  • 2. Science Policy in Canada and the NCE Experiment
  • 3. Configuring the Canadian Genetic Diseases Network
  • 4. Culture and Science
  • 5. From Science to Commerce
  • 6. Adventures in the Nature of Trade
  • 7. NCEs and the Public Interest
  • Appendix A. NCE Program Funded Networks, 1989-2005
  • Appendix B. Data Collection and Analysis
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index