Profits of Science : The American Marriage of Business and Technology

Looking at what happens when science marries money, this book focuses on the interaction of finance with the key frontier technologies of today's era - television, microelectronics and computers, pharmaceuticals, wartime radar and biotechnology. This book reveals how the source of money, whether from corporations, government, venture capital or public markets - shapes the resulting technology.

It also shows how the closing gap between basic and applied science results in a particular kind of entrepreneurial enterprise that can exploit it.

The book dispenses with the myth that bigness is best.

Robert Teitelman is the author of "Gene Dreams: Wall Street", "Academia and the Rise of Biotechnology".