Scientific freedom : the elixir of civilization / Donald W. Braben.

By:

Braben, Donald W, 1935- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0470226544
9780470226544

Other title:

Scientific freedom : The elixir of civilisation
Elixir of civilization
Elixir of civilisation

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

303.483 22

LOC classification:

Q180.A1 B645 2008

Online resources:

Contributor biographical information

Contents:

Introduction -- The Damocles Zone -- Scientific Freedom and Transformative Research -- Mismanagement by Objectives: The Need for Fresh Approaches -- Searching for Planck's Successors -- Universities for the Twenty-First Century: The Case for a Fifth Revolution -- Venture (or Transformative) Research: How It Works in Practice -- The Venture Research Harvest.

Summary: "This new book by Donald Braben discusses in detail what Transformative Research (Venture Research) actually is, how it relates to other research programmers, how an initiative might be designed and implemented, how it might be supported on the national scale, and why it is important to everyone."--Publisher description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-177) and index.

"This new book by Donald Braben discusses in detail what Transformative Research (Venture Research) actually is, how it relates to other research programmers, how an initiative might be designed and implemented, how it might be supported on the national scale, and why it is important to everyone."--Publisher description.

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