Global mega-science universities, research collaborations, and knowledge production
Never has the world been as rich in scientific knowledge as it is today. But what are its main sources? In accessible and engaging fashion, Global Mega-Science examines the origins of this unprecedented growth of knowledge production over the past hundred and twenty years. David P. Baker and Justin...
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Standford, California
Stanford University Press
2024, ©2024
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : a journey across the century of science
- Professor Price's error : the rise of global mega-science
- Talcott's prediction : why a century of science?
- Göttingen and beyond : the ascendant German research university
- Modest origins : the expansive American university-science model
- C.N. Yang's children : globalize or fade
- The theologian's institutes : a culture of scientific genius as counterfactual
- It's simple engineering : pursing the world class university in East Asia
- Mega-science goes global : investing in the 21st century university
- Chasing neutrinos through networks of science : university collaborations and scientization
- Conclusion : global mega-science, universities, and their joint future