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NOTES Introduction 1. Eric Schmidt, interview by Kai Ryssdal, Marketplace, American Public Media, July 7, 2009. 2. Michael Porter, “Why America Needs an Economic Strategy,” Business Week, October 30, 2008. 3. Gerald F. Seib, “In Crisis, Opportunity for Obama,” Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2008. 4. Porter, “Why America Needs an Economic Strategy.” 5. Henry Rosovsky, “Two Thirds of the Best,” in The University: An Owner’s Manual (New York: Norton, 1990), 29–36. 6. Peter F. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles (New York: Harper Business, 1993), 23. 7. Frank H.T. Rhodes,The Creation of the Future: The Role of the American University (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001), 5. 8. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 23. 9. Elizabeth D.Capaldi et al., “TheTop American Research Universities, 2008 AnnualReport,”CenterforMeasuringUniversityPerformance,http://mup .asu.edu/research2008.pdf (accessed August 20, 2009). 10. Richard L. Florida,The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure,Community and Everyday Life (New York: Basic Books, 2002). 11. Ronald G. Ehrenberg, ed.,The American University: National Treasure or Endangered Species? (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997). 12. Our colleague Jonathan Cole has eloquently made this point throughout his monumental work, The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence , Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected (New York: PublicAffairs, 2009). 13. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 26. 14. Ibid., 33. Chapter 1 1. “College and University Endowments Over $250 Million, 2008,” Chronicle of Higher Education, August 24, 2009. 2. John Kao, Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back (New York: Free Press, 2007), 24. 3. Ibid., 25. 4. Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais, Millennial Makeover: MySpace, 164 NOTES TO PAGES 12–26 YouTube, and the Future of American Politics (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2008), 142. 5. Kao, Innovation Nation, 159. 6. Ibid. 7. ActBlue,“AboutActBlue,”http://www.actblue.com/about(accessedAugust 20, 2009). 8. Katharine Q. Seelye and Leslie Wayne, “The Web Takes Ron Paul for a Ride,” New York Times, November 11, 2007. 9. Jose Antonio Vargas, “Obama Raised Half a Billion Online,” Washington Post, November 20, 2008. 10. Deloitte Consulting, “Who Are the Millennials?” http://www.deloitte .com/dtt/cda/doc/content/us_consulting_millennialfactsheet_080606 .pdf (accessed August 20, 2009); Winograd and Hais, Millennial Makeover, 67; ibid., 82; Deloitte Consulting, “Who Are the Millennials?” 11. Reynot Junco and Jeanna Mastrodicasa, Connecting to the Net.Generation: What Higher Education Professionals Need to Know about Today’s Students (Washington, D.C.: National Association of Student Personnel Administrators , 2007). 12. Kao, Innovation Nation, 38–39. 13. Congressional Research Service, “Federal Research and Development Funding: FY 2007,” Report for Congress, updated October 10, 2006, http:// www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33345.pdf (accessed August 20, 2009). 14. Marisa Lopez-Rivera, “Update on Billion-Dollar Campaigns at 33 Institutions ,” Chronicle of Higher Education, August 6, 2009. 15. Kao, Innovation Nation, 133. Chapter 2 1. Ronda Britt, “Universities Report Continued Decline in Real Federal S&E R&D Funding in FY 2007,” National Science Foundation website, http:// www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf08320/ (accessed August 20, 2009). 2. “The Gates Challenge for Global Health,” Seattle Times, May 19, 2005. 3. Stuart Pfeifer and Tom Petruno, “Support Keeps Growing for a Milken Pardon,” AllBusiness.com, February 8, 2009, http://www.allbusiness .com/government/government-bodies-offices/12032830-1.html (accessed April 5, 2010); “America’s Most Generous Donors,” The Chronicle of Philanthropy , http://philanthropy.com/stats/donors/detail.php?ID_Gift=1975 (accessed August 20, 2009). 4. H. Kent Bowen, Alex Kazaks, Ayr Muir-Harmony, and Bryce LaPierre, “The Langer Lab: Commercializing Science,” Harvard Business Publishing Brief Cases, March 2, 2005, 10; ibid., 11; ibid., 13. 5. LangerLabwebsite,“Home”and“Research,”http://web.mit.edu/langerlab/ index.html (accessed August 20, 2009). [3.15.5.183] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 15:11 GMT) NOTES TO PAGES 26–60 165 6. Bowen, Kazaks, Muir-Harmony, and LaPierre, “The Langer Lab,” 5. 7. Ibid., 17 8. Joseph DeSimone (Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University; principal investigator, DeSimone Research Group), in discussion with Goldstein , September 8, 2008. 9. Ibid. 10. Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment website, “Gift of $100 million to transform energy and environment research at Princeton,” July 1, 2008, http://www.princeton.edu/acee/news/stories/andlinger (accessed...

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