In 1990, the economist Nathan Rosenberg declared that "the linear model of innovation is dead." Unfortunately, the report of this death was, to paraphrase Mark Twain, an exaggeration. More than 25 years later, much research in universities, government, and industry is justified by invoking the linear view of innovation advocated by Vannevar Bush in his 1945 manifesto Science: The Endless Frontier. Bush argued for unfettered curiosity-driven basic research on problems chosen by individual researchers whose main goal was the pursuit of new knowledge. He believed that newly discovered knowledge would inevitably launch applied research projects, leading to commercial products that would be developed for appropriate markets.
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