Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Book Launch

Open to the Public

Tracing the history of the problematic "basic" and "applied" categories, Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Rethinking the Endless Frontier documents how historical views of policymakers and scientists have led to the construction of science as a pure ideal on the one hand and of engineering as a practical (and inherently less prestigious) activity on the other

Date: Wed, Oct 26, 2016 Time: 04:30pm - 06:15pm

<em>Cycles of Invention and Discovery</em> Book Launch

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Join former SEAS Dean Venky Narayanamurti and co-author Toluwalogo Odumosu for a discussion of their book, Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Rethinking the Endless Frontier.

Tracing the history of the problematic "basic" and "applied" categories, the book documents how historical views of policymakers and scientists have led to the construction of science as a pure ideal on the one hand and of engineering as a practical (and inherently less prestigious) activity on the other.

Sponsored by the Program on Science, Technology & Society