New Technology Policy and Social Innovations in the Firm

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ISBN: 9781855672598 | 1855672596
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Copyright: 6/7/2005

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In the light of increased discussion of technology policy by all major industrial countries, this volume presents the state of the debates and institutional change in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and Canada. It goes on to present studies of the major changes taking place in these countries, with regards to the adoption of new technology, and the reorganization of institutions to suit these changes.

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Introduction: Technical and organizational change in Western enterprises and the policy environment	p. 1
New technology policy in industrialized countries	p. 9
Britain's evolving technology policy: the end of defence domination	p. 11
Science and technology policy in the United States: trading-in the 1950 model	p. 38
Technical alliances in Canada: a transaction cost analysis of national and provincial policy interventions	p. 58
Technological alliances of industrial firms	p. 73
Technological alliances in Canadian industry	p. 75
High-tech entrepreneurship and organizational choice	p. 95
European alliance strategies in the information-processing industries	p. 122
Technical alliances of Japanese firms: an 'industrial restructuring' account of the latest phase of capitalist development	p. 150
Adoption of new technologies and new productive organization	p. 171
The Japanization of industry: a review of developments in the UK and Canada	p. 173
What about concurrent engineering?	p. 187
Rational calculations and information-gathering systems	p. 207
Information technologies and educational systems in France, Germany and Italy	p. 226
SME competitiveness, new technology, information and formation	p. 240
Index	p. 260
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