Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy by Alex Cummings

Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy

Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism

Alex Cummings

264 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction business history technology informative medium-paced
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Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina's low-wage economy. They pitched the universities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill as the kernel of a tech hu...

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