Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-339) and index.
Contents:
Innovation and the invisible hand of government / Fred Block -- The military's hidden hand : examining the dual-use origins of biotechnology in the American context, 1969-1972 / Shelley L. Hurt -- Political structures and the making of U.S. biotechnology / Steven P. Vallas, Daniel Lee Kleinman, and Dina Biscotti -- To hide or not to hide? The advanced technology program and the future of U.S. civilian technology policy / Marina Negoita -- Green capitalists in a purple state : Sandia National Laboratories and the renewable energy industry in New Mexico / Andrew Schrank -- The CIA's pioneering role in public venture capital initiatives / Matthew R. Keller -- DARPA does Moore's law : the case of DARPA and optoelectronic interconnects / Erica Fuchs -- Where do innovations come from? Transformations in the U.S. economy, 1970-2006 / Fred Block and Matthew R. Keller -- Failure to deploy : solar photovoltaic policy in the United States / Chris P.Knight -- From developmental network state to market managerialism in Ireland / Seán Ó Riain -- China's (not so hidden) developmental state : becoming a leading nanotechnology innovator in the twenty-first century / Richard P. Appelbaum ... [et al.] -- Everyone an innovator / John A. Alic -- The paradox of the weak state revisited : industrial policy, network governance, and political decentralization / Josh Whitford and Andrew Schrank -- Avoiding network failure : the case of the national nanotechnology initiative / Christopher Newfield.
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