LEADER 03211nam 2200373z- 450 001 9910166054303321 005 20210211 035 $a(CKB)3710000001080243 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/42829 035 $a(oapen)doab42829 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001080243 100 $a20202102d2016 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aCavendish: The Experimental Life 210 $cEdition Open Access$d2016 215 $a1 online resource (596 p.) 225 1 $aStudies 7: Max Planck Research Library in the History and Development of Knowledge 311 08$a3-945561-06-X 330 $aTwo gifted eighteenth-century Londoners, Charles Cavendish and his painfully preeminent son Henry were descendants of paired revolutions, one political and one scientific. Scions of a powerful revolutionary family, they gave an original turn to the duty of public service that attached to their social rank. The English aristocracy knew one of its finest hours when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the scales of the first great precision balance of the century. For this action to happen, it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific methods. This joint biography of father and son tells how it came to pass. Henry Cavendish is best known for his researches in chemistry, electricity, and heat, but in truth he worked in every part of physical science, bringing to it his unique combination of experimental precision and mathematical penetration. His accomplishment is likened to the highest example: since the death of Newton, Humphry Davy wrote, England has suffered "no scientific loss so great as that of Cavendish." Through inheritance he became immensely rich. Regarding intellect and fortune, he is called "the wisest of the rich and the richest of the wise." In his exclusive devotion to science, he is compared with "the most austere anchorites," who were "not more faithful to their vows." With reference to his legendary shyness, he is described as a man of "most reserved disposition," of a "degree bordering on disease." He was, to be sure, all of these things: one of the best scientists of his time, one of the richest men in the kingdom, a member of one of the politically most influential aristocratic families, a scientific fanatic, and a person of extraordinary peculiarities. This biography, a major revision of the original published in 1999, offers an enlarged understanding of the eighteenth century world of science and a reevaluation both of the scientific genius and of the remarkable personality of Henry Cavendish. 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Lane 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (226 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Lane, Joseph P. The ABC's of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy Cham : Springer,c2023 9783031344626 327 $aAristotle's Three States of Knowledge -- Vannevar Bush's Fateful Omission -- Coalition Eisenhower Didn't Foresee -- Development vs Research -- Everett Roger's Innovation Definition -- Federal Laboratory Consortium -- Government Bias in Funding -- Project Hindsight vs TRACES -- Idea Factory Lessons -- Juggling STI Terminology -- Knowledge Communication -- Logic Models at Work -- Multiplier Effect -- National Science Foundation -- Orphan Product Approach -- Push vs Pull -- Equations for National Innovation -- Rhetoric vs Reality -- Subordinating Engineering to Science -- Technology Transfer Offices -- University as a Free Enterprise -- Valuation of Invention Claims -- New Net Wealth -- Xi Jinping's China Strategy -- Why STI Fallacies Persist -- Zero Sum Game -- What comes after Z?. . 330 $aInnovation is a widely applied yet poorly understood term in the context of public policies and practices among Western nations. Technological innovations specifically have and will continue to advance civilization, shape modern society, and drive the economic health and geo-political standing of nations. This book offers a unique interpretation of science, technology & innovation (STI) policies in Western nations, particularly in regard to government-sponsored programs. The author challenges established thinking, directly addressing numerous myths that cloud our understanding of innovation and proposes a fresh perspective grounded in fundamental logic and analysis. Written in short chapters and presented in an alphabetically organized framework, this book addresses what is working and what isn?t working in current STI policies and suggests that the most efficient and effective way to generate technological innovations that yield the desired socio-economic benefits, is for national governments to sponsor directed scientific research and directed engineering development, and align both with the requirements of carefully managed commercial production. The book also features examples drawn from government data, scholarly literature, practitioner anecdotes and the author?s personal experience. 606 $aTechnological innovations 606 $aKnowledge management 606 $aInnovation and Technology Management 606 $aKnowledge Management 606 $aEconomics of Innovation 615 0$aTechnological innovations. 615 0$aKnowledge management. 615 14$aInnovation and Technology Management. 615 24$aKnowledge Management. 615 24$aEconomics of Innovation. 676 $a338.926 676 $a509.1821 700 $aLane$b Joseph P.$01380323 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910736026303321 996 $aThe ABC's of Science, Technology & Innovation (STI) Policy$94450880 997 $aUNINA