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8 Expanding the Community of Innovators
Pages 28-30

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... In some cases, as with aeronautics, partnerships between government and the private sector have led to new Left to right: Robert Schafrik, Robert Lucky, Roderic Pettigrew, Arun Majumdar, Wanda Austin, Leonard Kleinrock, C
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... In other cases, engineers working on their own decided to try things that no one else had tried. Sometimes national security was a driving force, or a difficult research problem, or the profit motive.
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... 30 THE PAST HALF-CENTURY OF ENGINEERING -- AND A LOOK FORWARD Audience members queue to ask questions during the panel discussion. engineers sitting in the audience and elsewhere around the world will help determine what happens during those next 50 years.
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