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Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation Donald E. Stokes
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Quadrant is the most provocative in suggesting a new model that seems broadly applicable across the different sciences. Stokes, "Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation" ISBN: 0815781784 | edition 1997 | PDF | 228 pages | 6 mb. Innovation, Technology Transfer. Quadrant?Basic Science and Technological Innovation. But, for reference, we note that in the terminology of Pasteur's Quadrant,11 we do "use-inspired basic" and "pure applied" (CS) research. Stokes has written a book entitled Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation. Her work generally revolves around the intersection of commercial science, with its secrecy and licenses, and “open science” following the usual academia playbook. This journal are later associated with a patent by their authors, and nearly everything in the journal plausibly discusses something that could be patented; research in this intersection of basic and applied technology is what Stokes famously called “Pasteur's Quadrant. Donald Stokes (Pascal's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation, 1997) stresses work that is motivated by both considerations for use and fundamental understanding. He suggested that research in this “Pasteur's quadrant” – use-inspired basic research – should be a priority for public support. Unless on subscribes to some species of idealism or essentialism, strictly speaking the term basic or fundamental research has no meaning outside its use as a statistical household word: in other words it is historically and socially contingent . His favorite example of "use-inspired basic research" is Louis Pasteur's repeated success in working on genuine problems such as the spoilage of milk and failures of wine fermentation, to produce basic science breakthroughs about bacterial processes and vaccines. But I'm not sure there's enough universally agreed common ground about innovation to talk about a “canon”. Yet a number of senior public servants, myself included, believe passionately in the pivotal role of research and technology in building a modern economy and society, and worked with successive governments over the last 15 years .. The punchline of the book is encapsulated in this article by Stokes [link]. Largely as a result of thinking about nanotechnology (as I discussed a few years ago here and here), I'm less confident any more that there's such a clean break between science and technology, or, for that matter, pure and .