Federal Industrial Innovation Policy
Author : Bruce Rubinger
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Federal aid to research
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Author : Bruce Rubinger
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Federal aid to research
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Author : D. Roessner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 1988-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 134908882X
Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Industrial policy
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Author : Kristian S. Palda
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
From the back cover: In this insightful study, Professor Palda raises grave doubts about the ability of the federal government to fulfill its claims of improving economic conditions by stimulating technological innovation. Although the government points to alleged failures of the free market system when justifying its interventionist programmes, objective evidence does not support this view. Rather, such programmes have typically reduced economic efficiency. Professor Palda points out that the taxpayer faced with a burgeoning bill for innovation programmes, must scrutinize the motivation and structure of proposed inititiatives closely.
Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Industries
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Author : Wendy H. Schacht
Publisher :
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Research, Industrial
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Author : United States. Advisory Committee on Industrial Innovation
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Page : 306 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Industrial policy
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Author : Wendy H. Schacht
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1437936091
Technology can contribute to economic growth and productivity increases. Legislative activity over the past 25 or more years has created a policy for technology development. Because of the lack of consensus on the scope and direction of a national policy, Congress has taken an incremental approach aimed at creating new mechanisms to facilitate technological advancement in particular areas and making changes and improvements as necessary. Contents of this report: (1) Technol. and Competitive.; (2) The Fed. Role in Technology Development; (3) Legislative Initiatives and Current Programs: Increased R&D Spending: Industry-Univ. Coop. Efforts; Joint Industrial Research; Commercializing Federally Funded R&D; Different Approach?
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Computer industry
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Author : Daniel Martin Traficonte
Publisher :
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN :
In recent years, scholars from a range of disciplines have analyzed the collective set of federal R&D programs as a high tech-oriented industrial policy through which the US government actively targets certain economic sectors over others for state support. Analysts have emphasized one dominant institutional feature of this system: federal R&D programs lack a central planning mechanism, and are instead highly fragmented and ad hoc. While some analysts have interpreted this institutional structure as a strength, others view the absence of R&D planning as a major shortcoming, a view shared by policymakers advocating for increased coordination of federal R&D programs in order to help combat economic and environmental challenges. This study examines the origins and institutional evolution of federal innovation policy, and in doing so, probes possibilities for future reform. My account focuses primarily on the business-state nexus as an explanatory factor, emphasizing the role of politically active industrial firms in shaping the system’s legal and institutional structure. I argue that R&D-based industrial firms were opposed to proposals for R&D planning, but only insofar as these proposals also threatened a separate institutional feature to which these firms were more firmly committed: the transfer of patent rights resulting from government-led R&D projects into private hands. During the New Deal and into the immediate postwar period, the link between patent reform and innovation planning prompted industrial firms to lead the attack against progressive calls for a more coordinated R&D system. When government patent policy became decoupled from planning during the Space Race and eventually led to a new consensus on “technology transfer,” industrial firms shifted in favor of R&D planning but by that time saw their political influence substantially reduced. The neoliberal business coalition lobbied instead for increasingly fragmented one-off programs to promote specific high-tech fields--a “hidden developmental state” that would remain intact until the present. From this perspective, the structure of the federal R&D system is more a result of a conflict over property than over planning, and the institutional link between coordination and government patent policy may frustrate future attempts to finally realize planned innovation in the US.