{"product_id":"america-inc-innovation-and-enterprise-in-the-national-security-state-hardback-9780801452680","title":"America Inc.?; Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State (Hardback) 9780801452680","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAmerica Inc.?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eInnovation and Enterprise in the National Security State\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLinda Weiss (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801452680\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 March 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages, 8 tables, 10 charts, 2 line figures - 8 Tables, unspecified\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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) \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)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor more than half a century, the United States has led the world in developing major technologies that drive the modern economy and underpin its prosperity\u003c\/b\u003e. Linda 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. In \u003ci\u003eAmerica Inc.? \u003c\/i\u003eshe examines how that complex emerged and how it has evolved in response to changing geopolitical threats and domestic political constraints, from the Cold War period to the post-9\/11 era.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeiss focuses on state-funded venture capital funds, new forms of technology procurement by defense and security-related agencies, and innovation in robotics, nanotechnology, and renewable energy since the 1980s. Weiss argues that the national security state has been the crucible for breakthrough innovations, a catalyst for entrepreneurship and the formation of new firms, and a collaborative network coordinator for private-sector initiatives. Her book appraises persistent myths about the military-commercial relationship at the core of the National Security State. Weiss also discusses the implications for understanding U.S. capitalism, the American state, and the future of American primacy as financialized corporations curtail investment in manufacturing and innovation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607699190040,"sku":"9780801452680","price":53.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/america-inc-innovation-and-enterprise-in-the-national-security-state-hardback-9780801452680","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}