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Science First: Contributions of a University-Industry Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program to Economic Development
- The Journal of Higher Education
- The Ohio State University Press
- Volume 74, Number 3, May/June 2003
- pp. 292-320
- 10.1353/jhe.2003.0023
- Article
- Additional Information
Public policy establishing the UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program helped to establish the state's environmental technology industry. The multidisciplinary "science-push" program generated economic development benefits including leveraged research funding and at least two hundred new private sector jobs, twenty-five spin-off companies, and over one hundred patents.