TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weiss,Linda
TI  - America inc.?: innovation and enterprise in the national security state 
T2  - Cornell studies in political economy
SN  - 9780801471131
AV  - HC110 .A447 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Military-industrial complex
KW  - United States
KW  - National security
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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 --; Rise of the national security state as technology enterprise --; Emergence --; Growth: the Sputnik effect --; Crisis: the legitimation and innovation deficit --; Reform and reorientation (i): beginnings --; Reform and reorientation (ii): consolidation --; Re-visioning --; Concluding comments --; Investing in new ventures --; Geopolitical roots of the U.S. venture capital industry --; Post-cold war trends: new funds for a new security environment --; Conclusion --; Beyond serendipity: procuring transformative technology --; Technology procurement versus R&D: the activist element of government purchasing --; Spin-off and spin-around: serendipitous and purposeful --; Breaching the wall: nudging towards military-commercial (re-)integration --; Reorienting the public-private partnership --; Structural changes in the domestic arena --; Reorientation: the quest for commercial viability --; Beyond a military-industrial divide: innovating for security and commerce --; Overview and conclusion --; 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? --; Conclusion --; Hybridization and American anti-statism --; The significance of hybridization --; An american tendency? --; Nature of the beast: neither privatization nor outsourcing --; Innovation hybrids --; Discussion and conclusion --; Penetrating the myths of the military-commerce relationship --; myths laid bare --; The (serendipitous) spinoff --; Hidden industrial policy --; Wall of separation: military-industrial complex --; Quantity of r&d spending creates innovation leadership --; The defense spending question: in search of the Holy Grail? --; Conclusion --; Conclusions: hybrid state, hybrid capitalism, great power turning --; Comparative institutions and varieties of capitalism --; The American state --; Great power turning point: fettered strength --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments; 2; b
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