{"product_id":"america-inc-9780801479304","title":"America Inc.","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex of agencies, programs, and hybrid arrangements that has developed around the institution of permanent defense preparedness and the pursuit of technological supremacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis dense, powerful volume offers profound insights into the U.S. innovation system and its driving forces....It deserves close attention from anyone with an interest in innovation or America's place at the technological frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Mark Zachary Taylor * Political Science Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile \u003ci\u003eAmerica Inc.? \u003c\/i\u003eis not a book for those desiring a normative critique of US policy, it is, instead, an invaluable analytical explanation as to how the US has been preeminent in its inexorable innovative drive to achieve and maintain its defense primacy. As such, Weiss lays out a forceful challenge to the traditional conceptualization of the US as a paradigmatic liberal capitalist state.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Dr. Maryanne Kelton * Australian Institute of International Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The National Security State and Technology Leadership\u003cbr\u003e The U.S. Puzzle\u003cbr\u003e The Argument\u003cbr\u003e Re-viewing the NSS–Private Sector Relationship\u003cbr\u003e Existing Accounts: Discounting, Sidelining, Civilianizing the State\u003cbr\u003e The Approach of This Book\u003cbr\u003e New Thinking on the American State\u003cbr\u003e 2. Rise of the National Security State as Technology Enterprise\u003cbr\u003e Emergence (1945–1957)\u003cbr\u003e Growth: The Sputnik Effect (1958–1968)\u003cbr\u003e Crisis: Legitimation and Innovation Deficits (1969–1979)\u003cbr\u003e Reform and Reorientation: Beginnings (1980–1989)\u003cbr\u003e Reform and Reorientation: Consolidation (1990–1999)\u003cbr\u003e Re-visioning (2000–2012)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Investing in New Ventures\u003cbr\u003e Geopolitical Roots of the U.S. Venture Capital Industry\u003cbr\u003e Post–Cold War Trends: New Funds for a New Security Environment4. Beyond Serendipity: Procuring Transformative Technology\u003cbr\u003e Technology Procurement versus R\u0026amp;D: The Activist Element of Government Purchasing\u003cbr\u003e Spin-Off and Spin-Around—Serendipitous and Purposeful\u003cbr\u003e Breaching the Wall: Edging Toward Military-Commercial (Re-)Integration\u003cbr\u003e 5. Reorienting the Public-Private Partnership\u003cbr\u003e Structural Changes in the Domestic Arena\u003cbr\u003e Reorientation: The Quest for Commercial Viability\u003cbr\u003e Beyond a Military-Industrial Divide: Innovating for Both Security and Commerce\u003cbr\u003e 6. No More Breakthroughs?\u003cbr\u003e Post-9\/11 Decline of the NSS Technology Enterprise?\u003cbr\u003e Nanotechnology: A Coordinated Effort\u003cbr\u003e Robotics: The Drive for Drones\u003cbr\u003e Clean Energy: From Laggard to Leader?\u003cbr\u003e Caveat: A Faltering NSS Innovation Engine?\u003cbr\u003e 7. Hybridization and American Antistatism\u003cbr\u003e The Significance of Hybridization\u003cbr\u003e An American Tendency?\u003cbr\u003e Nature of the Beast: Neither \"Privatization\" nor \"Outsourcing\"\u003cbr\u003e Innovation Hybrids\u003cbr\u003e 8. Penetrating the Myths of the Military-Commercial Relationship\u003cbr\u003e Four Myths Laid Bare\u003cbr\u003e Serendipitous Spin-Off\u003cbr\u003e Hidden Industrial Policy\u003cbr\u003e Wall of Separation and Military-Industrial Complex\u003cbr\u003e R\u0026amp;D Spending Creates Innovation Leadership\u003cbr\u003e The Defense Spending Question: In Search of the Holy Grail?\u003cbr\u003e 9. Hybrid State, Hybrid Capitalism, Great Power Turning Point\u003cbr\u003e Comparative Institutions and Varieties of Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e The American State\u003cbr\u003e Great Power Turning Point\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MB - Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49944478810455,"sku":"9780801479304","price":21.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801479304.jpg?v=1738810261","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/america-inc-9780801479304","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}