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ERIC Number: EJ354331
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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Computer Industry Sees Higher Education as Tough but Lucrative Market for Products.
Turner, Judith Axler
Chronicle of Higher Education, v33 n39 p1,18-19 Jun 10 1987
Interviews with computer-company officials and a survey show that: despite higher education discounts, computer companies make money; colleges offer computer companies intellectual capital; students take hardware and software preferences with them into jobs; higher education influences computers built and sold; and higher education is a "refreshable" market for computers. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Computers, Higher Education, Industry, Marketing, Merchandising, Microcomputers, Retailing, School Business Relationship, Surveys, Technological Advancement
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Product Development