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innovation and enterprise in the national security state

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An edition of America inc.? (2014)

America inc.?

innovation and enterprise in the national security state

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America inc.?: innovation and enterprise in the national security state
2014, Cornell University Press
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2014, Cornell University Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-253) and index.

Published in
Ithaca
Series
Cornell studies in political economy, Cornell studies in political economy
Other Titles
America incorporated.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
338.0973
Library of Congress
HC110.D4 W48 2014, HC110.D4W48 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 262 p. :
Number of pages
262

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26704562M
Internet Archive
americaincinnova00weis
ISBN 10
0801479304, 0801452686
ISBN 13
9780801479304, 9780801452680
LCCN
2013038090
OCLC/WorldCat
861073000

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