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

À�Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation》；. À�World Wide Research: Reshaping the Science and Humanities》；. An increasing amount of fundamental science in applications-driven R&D, as defined in the Pasteur quadrant (Stokes 1997, Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation, Brookings Institution Press). He is Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology to the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the founding chair of the U.S. 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. Largely as a result of thinking about nanotechnology (as I discussed a few years ago here and here), I'm less confident any more that there's such a clean break between science and technology, or, for that matter, pure and . But I'm not sure there's enough universally agreed common ground about innovation to talk about a “canon”. Traditional government policies suggest that upstream investment in scientific research is necessary and sufficient to generate technological innovations. À�Instructional Technology: past, present and future》；. National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology (NSTC/ NSET). 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. He suggested that research in this “Pasteur's quadrant” – use-inspired basic research – should be a priority for public support. 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. Donald Stokes (Pascal's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation, 1997) stresses work that is motivated by both considerations for use and fundamental understanding.