America Inc. ? : Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State.

America Inc.? -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. The National Security State and Technology Leadership -- The U.S. Puzzle -- The Argument -- Re-viewing the NSS-Private Sector Relationship -- Existing Accounts: Discounting, Sidelining, Civilianizing the State -- The Approach of This Book -- New Thinking on the American State -- 2. Rise of the National Security State as Technology Enterprise -- Emergence (1945-1957) -- Growth: The Sputnik Effect (1958-1968) -- Crisis: Legitimation and Innovation Deficits (1969-1979) -- Reform and Reorientation: Beginnings (1980-1989) -- Reform and Reorientation: Consolidation (1990-1999) -- Re-visioning (2000-2012) -- 3. Investing in New Ventures -- Geopolitical Roots of the U.S. Venture Capital Industry -- Post-Cold War Trends: New Funds for a New Security Environment -- 4. Beyond Serendipity: Procuring Transformative Technology -- Technology Procurement versus R&amp -- D: The Activist Element of Government Purchasing -- Spin-Off and Spin-Around-Serendipitous and Purposeful -- Breaching the Wall: Edging toward Military-Commercial (Re-)Integration -- 5. Reorienting the Public-Private Partnership -- Structural Changes in the Domestic Arena -- Reorientation: The Quest for Commercial Viability -- Beyond a Military-Industrial Divide: Innovating for Both Security and Commerce -- 6. No More Breakthroughs? -- Post-9/11 Decline of the NSS Technology Enterprise? -- Nanotechnology: A Coordinated Effort -- Robotics: The Drive for Drones -- Clean Energy: From Laggard to Leader? -- Caveat: A Faltering NSS Innovation Engine? -- 7. Hybridization and American Antistatism -- The Significance of Hybridization -- An American Tendency? -- Nature of the Beast: Neither "Privatization" nor "Outsourcing" -- Innovation Hybrids -- 8. Penetrating the Myths of the Military-Commercial Relationship -- Four Myths Laid Bare.

Serendipitous Spin-Off -- Hidden Industrial Policy -- Wall of Separation and Military-Industrial Complex -- R&amp -- D Spending Creates Innovation leadership -- The Defense Spending Question: In Search of the Holy Grail? -- 9. Hybrid State, Hybrid Capitalism, Great Power Turning Point -- Comparative Institutions and Varieties of Capitalism -- The American State -- Great Power Turning Point -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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.

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