Asleep at the switch : the political economy of federal research and development policy since 1960 /
Bruce Smardon.
- Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (505 pages).
- Carleton Library Series ; 228 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: The Canadian Federal State and Domestic Technological Development -- Promoting Domestic Technological Capacities: State Strategies and Social Antagonisms -- Part one : Permutations of dependent technological development : from early Fordism to neoliberal restructuring. Entrenching Dependent Technological Development: Canadian Fordism in the Early Twentieth Century -- Reasserting Dependent Technological Development: Canadian Fordism in the Postwar "Golden Age" -- Another Form of Dependent Technological Development: Post-Fordist Accumulation in the Neoliberal Era Part two : Permutations of the Glassco framework : promoting R&D from Diefenbaker to Chrétien. Beginning the Process: The Diefenbaker Tories and R&D Incentive Programs, 1957-63 -- Internal Struggles: Left-Liberals, the Glassco Framework, and R&D Policy, 1963-68 -- Further Contestation: The Gray Initiative, 1968-71 -- Limiting Change: Industrial Restructuring and Social Forces, 1971-73 -- Extending the Glassco Framework: R&D Policy in the 1970's -- Moving to the Right: The Trudeau Liberals and R&D Incentive Programs, 1981-84 -- Last Challenge to Transnational Capital: Left-Liberals and State Led Strategies, 1980-81 -- The Glassco Framework in an Era of Free Trade: The Mulroney Tories and R&D Policy, 1984-93 -- Final Episode: Transformative Strategies, the Glassco Framework, and the Chrétien Liberals, 1993-2000 -- Conclusion: The Impasse of the Federal State and Canadian Industrial R&D.
Why Canadian industrial R&D remains limited in comparison with other economies - and how federal policy contributes to the problem.