The rise (and stumble?) of the world's high-tech hegemon, lecture by Linda Weiss
Channel: BITS
Date: 2017-06-01

The lecture is based on the argument of Linda Weiss’ book, America Inc? Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State (Cornell University Press). America’s rise as the world’s high-tech hegemon is not a free market story, nor is it an industrial policy tale. Rather, it is the product of a national security state (NSS) that has pursued technological supremacy as a strategic imperative essential to sustaining U.S. power - increasingly by directly promoting commercial innovation in order to ensure collaboration from its most advanced suppliers. Part of the Bits Lecture Series. Barcelona, May 2017.