Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy (Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism) by Alex Sayf Cummings
English | May 25th, 2020 | ISBN: 0231184913, 0231184905 | 264 pages | EPUB | 9.25 MB
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 hub, Research Triangle Park, which would lure a new class of highly educated workers. In the process, they created a blueprint for what would become known as the knowledge economy: a future built on intellectual labor and the production of intellectual property.