America inc.? : innovation and enterprise in the national security state
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xii, 262 p. : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-253) and index
The national security state and technology leadership. The U.S. puzzle -- The argument -- Re-viewing the NSS-private sector relationship -- Existing accounts : discounting, sidelining, civilianizing the state -- The approach of this book -- New thinking on the American state -- Rise of the national security state as technology enterprise -- Emergence (1945-1957) -- Growth : the Sputnik effect (1958-1968) -- Crisis : legitimation and innovation deficits (1969-1979) -- Reform and reorientation (i) : beginnings (1980-1989) -- Reform and reorientation (ii) : consolidation (1990-1999) -- Re-visioning (2000-2012) -- Investing in new ventures. Geopolitical roots of the U.S. venture capital industry -- Post-cold war trends : new funds for a new security environment -- Beyond serendipity : procuring transformative technology. Technology procurement versus R&D : the activist element of government purchasing -- Spin-off and spin-around--serendipitous and purposeful -- Breaching the wall : edging toward military-commercial (re-)integration -- Reorienting the public-private partnership. Structural changes in the domestic arena -- Reorientation : the quest for commercial viability -- Beyond a military-industrial divide : innovating for both security and commerce -- No more breakthroughs? Post-9/11 decline of the NSS technology enterprise? -- Nanotechnology : a coordinated effort -- Robotics : the drive for drones -- Clean energy : from laggard to leader? -- Caveat : a faltering NSS innovation engine? -- Hybridization and American antistatism. The significance of hybridization -- An American tendency? -- Nature of the beast : neither "privatization" nor "outsourcing" -- Innovation hybrids -- Penetrating the myths of the military-commerce relationship. Four myths laid bare -- Serendipitous spin-off -- Hidden industrial policy -- Wall of separation and military-industrial complex -- R&D spending creates innovation leadership -- The defense spending question : in search of the Holy Grail? -- Hybrid state, hybrid capitalism, great power turning point. Comparative institutions and varieties of capitalism -- The American state -- Great power turning point
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-253) and index
The national security state and technology leadership. The U.S. puzzle -- The argument -- Re-viewing the NSS-private sector relationship -- Existing accounts : discounting, sidelining, civilianizing the state -- The approach of this book -- New thinking on the American state -- Rise of the national security state as technology enterprise -- Emergence (1945-1957) -- Growth : the Sputnik effect (1958-1968) -- Crisis : legitimation and innovation deficits (1969-1979) -- Reform and reorientation (i) : beginnings (1980-1989) -- Reform and reorientation (ii) : consolidation (1990-1999) -- Re-visioning (2000-2012) -- Investing in new ventures. Geopolitical roots of the U.S. venture capital industry -- Post-cold war trends : new funds for a new security environment -- Beyond serendipity : procuring transformative technology. Technology procurement versus R&D : the activist element of government purchasing -- Spin-off and spin-around--serendipitous and purposeful -- Breaching the wall : edging toward military-commercial (re-)integration -- Reorienting the public-private partnership. Structural changes in the domestic arena -- Reorientation : the quest for commercial viability -- Beyond a military-industrial divide : innovating for both security and commerce -- No more breakthroughs? Post-9/11 decline of the NSS technology enterprise? -- Nanotechnology : a coordinated effort -- Robotics : the drive for drones -- Clean energy : from laggard to leader? -- Caveat : a faltering NSS innovation engine? -- Hybridization and American antistatism. The significance of hybridization -- An American tendency? -- Nature of the beast : neither "privatization" nor "outsourcing" -- Innovation hybrids -- Penetrating the myths of the military-commerce relationship. Four myths laid bare -- Serendipitous spin-off -- Hidden industrial policy -- Wall of separation and military-industrial complex -- R&D spending creates innovation leadership -- The defense spending question : in search of the Holy Grail? -- Hybrid state, hybrid capitalism, great power turning point. Comparative institutions and varieties of capitalism -- The American state -- Great power turning point
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