The Academic research enterprise within the industrialized nations : comparative perspectives report of a symposium / the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable.

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, [1990]

vii, 115 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

"March 1990"

"National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine"

Co-sponsored by the Research Roundtable and the National Science Foundation at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., March 23, 1989--Cf. p. v

Partial contents: The American university and research / Roger L. Geiger -- The university, industry, and research in Japan / James R. Bartholomew -- Research and the Russian university / Mark B. Adams -- Research and British universities / Sheldon Rothblatt -- Trends in the twentieth-century German research enterprise / Alan D. Beyerchen -- Research, education, and the industrial economy in modern France / Robert Fox.

Includes bibliographical references