Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation by Donald E. Stokes

Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation



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Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Page: 228
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ISBN: 0815781776, 9780815781776


Quadrant is the most provocative in suggesting a new model that seems broadly applicable across the different sciences. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 11(2), 247-262. He suggested that research in this “Pasteur's quadrant” – use-inspired basic research – should be a priority for public support. His favorite example of “use-inspired basic research” is Louis Pasteur's repeated success in working on genuine problems such as the spoilage of milk and failures of wine fermentation, to produce basic science breakthroughs about bacterial processes and vaccines. The punchline of the book is encapsulated in this article by Stokes [link]. Eschewing Vannevar Bush's model of separation between 'pure, untainted' research and that influenced by considerations of use, see Donald Stokes' excellent book "Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation. Stokes has written a book entitled Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation. Stokes DE: Pasteur's quadrant: Basic science and technological innovation. Donald Stokes (Pascal's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation, 1997) stresses work that is motivated by both considerations for use and fundamental understanding. Not exist (noscript) message in the property file. The decreasing value of our research to management education. Kvant Selecta : Algebra and Analysis. Traditional government policies suggest that upstream investment in scientific research is necessary and sufficient to generate technological innovations. Basic science and technological innovation. "New knowledge can be obtained only through basic scientific research" conducted in universities and research labs, which is then applied to develop new products by the private sector and new and improved weapons by the defense . But I'm not sure there's enough universally agreed common ground about innovation to talk about a “canon”. Largely as a result of thinking about nanotechnology (as I discussed a few years ago here and here), I'm less confident any more that there's such a clean break between science and technology, or, for that matter, pure and .