Industrial Overcapacity Enables Scientific Discovery
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Idle Machines, New Science
The standard concept of science and technology development in America runs something like a relay race: undirected basic research produces fundamental insight, applied research translates that insight into specific fields, and lab-to-market commercialization delivers the fruits of publicly funded research to the public. Vannevar Bush's Science, the Endless Frontier canonized this view — later dubbed the "linear model" — which centers the university as the locus of scientific production and industry as the recipient. China's industrial success increasingly challenges this picture. Its scale…
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