America inc.?
Subtitle: innovation and enterprise in the national security state
By: Linda Weiss
Series: Cornell studies in political economy; Cornell studies in political economy
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780801479304; 9780801452680
Subjects: Military-industrial complex; National security
Other titles: America incorporated.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: The national security state and technology leadership. The U.S. puzzle; title: The argument; title: Re-viewing the NSS-private sector relationship; title: Existing accounts : discounting, sidelining, civilianizing the state; title: The approach of this book; title: New thinking on the American state; title: Rise of the national security state as technology enterprise; title: Emergence (1945-1957); title: Growth : the Sputnik effect (1958-1968); title: Crisis : legitimation and innovation deficits (1969-1979); title: Reform and reorientation (i) : beginnings (1980-1989); title: Reform and reorientation (ii) : consolidation (1990-1999); title: Re-visioning (2000-2012); title: Investing in new ventures. Geopolitical roots of the U.S. venture capital industry; title: Post-cold war trends : new funds for a new security environment; title: Beyond serendipity : procuring transformative technology. Technology procurement versus R&D : the activist element of government purchasing; title: Spin-off and spin-around; title: serendipitous and purposeful; title: Breaching the wall : edging toward military-commercial (re-)integration; title: Reorienting the public-private partnership.  Structural changes in the domestic arena; title: Reorientation : the quest for commercial viability; title: Beyond a military-industrial divide : innovating for both security and commerce; title: No more breakthroughs?  Post-9/11 decline of the NSS technology enterprise?; title: Nanotechnology : a coordinated effort; title: Robotics : the drive for drones; title: Clean energy : from laggard to leader?; title: Caveat : a faltering NSS innovation engine?; title: Hybridization and American antistatism.  The significance of hybridization; title: An American tendency?; title: Nature of the beast : neither "privatization" nor "outsourcing"; title: Innovation hybrids; title: Penetrating the myths of the military-commerce relationship. Four myths laid bare; title: Serendipitous spin-off; title: Hidden industrial policy; title: Wall of separation and military-industrial complex; title: R&D spending creates innovation leadership; title: The defense spending question : in search of the Holy Grail?; title: Hybrid state, hybrid capitalism, great power turning point. Comparative institutions and varieties of capitalism; title: The American state; title: Great power turning point.