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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