C. Breck Hitz

Leoma and the Us Laser Industry

The Good and Bad Moves for Trade Associations in Emerging High-Tech Industries

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The U.S. laser industry is a major player in the country's economy, with its products used in factories, laboratories, offices, homes and motor vehicles around the country. The issues addressed by the laser industry during the past several decades - patent litigation, worker education, export controls, international standardization, and others - are those that any emerging high-tech industry will have to face. Offering a roadmap for future technology development and commercialization, this book chronicles the laser and electro-optics industry and its issues for business executives, scientists and technicians, attorneys, journalists, historians, and others.

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This book describes the approaches, both successful and not, to the political and infrastructure issues addressed by the trade association. The intent is to provide guidance to those confronting similar issues, and help them avoid unsuccessful approaches.

Includes end-of-chapter summaries
Example of documents and approaches that LEOMA used successfully are included and could serve as a guide to other trade associations.
Chapter 5 includes figures presenting the unique and effective graphical approach that LEOMA use to improve US national-security export controls

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781118010242
• ISBN-10: 1118010248
• Artikelnr.: 39178167

Autorenporträt

C. Breck Hitz received his bachelor's degree from Penn State University, USA and his master's degree from Massachusetts State University, USA. He is the owner and principal of Photonetics Associates, USA, a consulting firm he created in 1975 after leaving a position as an R&D engineer at GTE's Electro-Optics Organization. For two decades, he was executive director of LEOMA, the trade association for North American laser and photonics manufacturers. He has been an editor of all three trade publications established in the US photonics industry: Photonics Spectra, Lasers & Applications, and Laser Focus World

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vii 1 LEOMA and the U.S. Laser Industry 1 2 Professional Societies
and the Photonics Community 29 3 International Laser Standards 53 4
Educational Issues 75 5 Export Controls 95 6 The Federal Government 117 7
Intra-Industry Affairs 131 Appendix 1: LEOMA Officers 157 Appendix 2: ISO
Laser Standards 161 Appendix 3: LEOMA Executive Seminars 163 Appendix 4:
The LEOMA ADR Agreement 167 Index 171