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

by Alex Cummings and Alex Sayf Cummings

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231184913
• ISBN13: 9780231184915
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"