Article ID: CBB000700981

What Do Universities Really Owe Industry? The Case of Solid State Electronics at Stanford (2005)

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It is widely argued that, in the United States, the Department of Defense dictated the intellectual contours of academic science and engineering during the Cold War. However, in important ways, American science was also deeply influenced by industry. Between 1955 and 1985, Stanford University embraced three waves of industrial innovation in solid state technology (transistors, integrated circuits, and VLSI systems). As this essay shows, it was these transfers that enabled Stanford engineers to make significant contributions to the expanding fields of microelectronics and computing.

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Authors & Contributors
Mills, Mara C.
Yi, Doogab
Wormbs, Nina
Widmalm, Sven
Webster, Frank
Tang, Jeffrey Donald
Concepts
Academically sponsored science
Universities and colleges
Electronics
Technology
Science and industry
Science and economics
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Places
United States
Japan
Wisconsin (U.S.)
Great Britain
Institutions
Stanford University
Diamond Ordnance Fuze Laboratories (U.S.)
United States. National Bureau of Standards
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