Linda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex of agencies, programs, and hybrid arrangements that has developed around the institution of permanent defense preparedness and the pursuit of technological supremacy.
Linda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex of agencies, programs, and hybrid arrangements that has developed around the institution of permanent defense preparedness and the pursuit of technological supremacy.
Linda Weiss is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Politics at the University of Sydney. She is the author of The Myth of the Powerless State, also from Cornell, and coeditor most recently of Developmental Politics in Transition: The Neoliberal Era and Beyond.
Inhaltsangabe
1. 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 2. 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: Beginnings (1980-1989) Reform and Reorientation: Consolidation (1990-1999) Re-visioning (2000-2012) 3. Investing in New Ventures Geopolitical Roots of the U.S. Venture Capital Industry Post-Cold War Trends: New Funds for a New Security Environment4. 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 5. 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 6. 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? 7. Hybridization and American Antistatism The Significance of Hybridization An American Tendency? Nature of the Beast: Neither "Privatization" nor "Outsourcing" Innovation Hybrids 8. Penetrating the Myths of the Military-Commercial 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? 9. Hybrid State, Hybrid Capitalism, Great Power Turning Point Comparative Institutions and Varieties of Capitalism The American State Great Power Turning Point
1. 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 2. 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: Beginnings (1980-1989) Reform and Reorientation: Consolidation (1990-1999) Re-visioning (2000-2012) 3. Investing in New Ventures Geopolitical Roots of the U.S. Venture Capital Industry Post-Cold War Trends: New Funds for a New Security Environment4. 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 5. 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 6. 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? 7. Hybridization and American Antistatism The Significance of Hybridization An American Tendency? Nature of the Beast: Neither "Privatization" nor "Outsourcing" Innovation Hybrids 8. Penetrating the Myths of the Military-Commercial 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? 9. 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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