 | Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy Subjects: Research Triangle Park (N.C.) -- History; Knowledge economy -- North Carolina -- Research Triangle -- History; Technology -- Research -- North Carolina -- Research Triangle -- History; Alex Sayf Cummings reveals the significance of North Carolina's Research Triangle Park to the emergence of the high-tech economy in a postindustrial United States. Brain Magnet pinpoints how it sheds new light on the origins of today's urban landscape, in which innovation is lauded as the engine of economic growth against a backdrop of inequality. Alex Sayf Cummings is associate professor of history at Georgia State University. She is the author of Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century (2013). |
