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The physicist as entrepreneur

JAN 01, 1982
“I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company, and that this new kind of company is the frontier for the next generation.”—Edwin Land (1946)
Michael Jacobs

The phenomenal growth of physics as a science over the past half century has been paralled, breakthrough for breakthrough, by the explosion of physics as a marketable commodity. Technology has followed close on the heels of research, and has sometimes even taken the lead and acted as a stimulus for research.

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Michael Jacobs. Scientists' Institute for Public Information's Media Resource Service.

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Volume 35, Number 1

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