America inc.? : innovation and enterprise in the national security state /

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Main Author: Weiss, Linda (Linda M.) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Series:Cornell studies in political economy.
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505 0 |a 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 -- Growth: the Sputnik effect -- Crisis: the legitimation and innovation deficit -- Reform and reorientation (i): beginnings -- Reform and reorientation (ii): consolidation -- Re-visioning -- Concluding comments -- Investing in new ventures -- Geopolitical roots of the U.S. venture capital industry -- Post-cold war trends: new funds for a new security environment -- Conclusion -- 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: nudging towards 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 security and commerce -- Overview and conclusion -- 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? -- Conclusion -- Hybridization and American anti-statism -- The significance of hybridization -- An american tendency? -- Nature of the beast: neither privatization nor outsourcing -- Innovation hybrids -- Discussion and conclusion -- Penetrating the myths of the military-commerce relationship -- myths laid bare -- The (serendipitous) spinoff -- Hidden industrial policy -- Wall of separation: military-industrial complex -- Quantity of r&d spending creates innovation leadership -- The defense spending question: in search of the Holy Grail? -- Conclusion -- Conclusions: hybrid state, hybrid capitalism, great power turning -- Comparative institutions and varieties of capitalism -- The American state -- Great power turning point: fettered strength -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments. 
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