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

This book makes clear that research could be 'engaged' and 'fundamental' at the same time. "New knowledge can be obtained only through basic scientific research" conducted in universities and research labs, which is then applied to develop new products by the private sector and new and improved weapons by the defense . In the first place Donald Stokes' book “Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation” (1997). Which is a good thing because new (or better) technology enables new scientific questions to be asked. Pasteur's quadrant: Basic science and technological innovation. The quadrant of this typology that is concerned with fundamental understanding AND considerations of use is termed Pasteur's quadrant, or alternately “use-inspired basic research.” I reproduced a diagram from the book that illustrates the typology: Use-inspired basic research can advance both fundamental knowledge as well as technology. 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. An alternative model in which science and practice develop seamlessly is represented in the remarkable career of Louis Pasteur. Stokes DE: Pasteur's quadrant: Basic science and technological innovation. DARPA's mission to create and prevent strategic surprise requires agile, rapid innovation so that technologies may be brought to bear quickly to serve the warfighter. Bush, Science: The Endless Frontier (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1945), 1–11 (accessed 28 May 2009); discussed in D. Defense Sciences Office (DSO) programs bridge the gap from fundamental science to applications by identifying and pursuing some of the most promising ideas within the science and engineering research communities and transforming these He knows Pasteur's quadrant, because he's lived it. Eschewing Vannevar Bush's model of separation between 'pure, untainted' research and that influenced by considerations of use, see Donald Stokes' excellent book "Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation. Traditional government policies suggest that upstream investment in scientific research is necessary and sufficient to generate technological innovations. Louis Pasteur and modern science. Donald Stokes (Pascal's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation, 1997) stresses work that is motivated by both considerations for use and fundamental understanding.