Description First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
TOC Cover 2 New Technology Policy and Social Innovations in the Firm 3 Title Page 5 Copyright Page 6 Table of Contents 7 List of contributors 8 Introduction: Technical and organizational change in Western enterprises and the policy environment 9 I: New technology policy in industrialized countries 17 1 Britain's evolving technology policy: the end of defence domination 19 2 Science and technology policy in the United States: trading-in the 1950 model 46 3 Technical alliances in Canada: a transaction cost analysis of national and provincial policy interventions 66 II: Technological alliances of industrial firms 81 4 Technological alliances in Canadian industry 83 5 High-tech entrepreneurship and organizational choice 103 6 European alliance strategies in the information-processing industries 130 Cover 2 New Technology Policy and Social Innovations in the Firm 3 Title Page 5 Copyright Page 6 Table of Contents 7 List of contributors 8 Introduction: Technical and organizational change in Western enterprises and the policy environment 9 I: New technology policy in industrialized countries 17 1 Britain's evolving technology policy: the end of defence domination 19 2 Science and technology policy in the United States: trading-in the 1950 model 46 3 Technical alliances in Canada: a transaction cost analysis of national and provincial policy interventions 66 II: Technological alliances of industrial firms 81 4 Technological alliances in Canadian industry 83 5 High-tech entrepreneurship and organizational choice 103 6 European alliance strategies in the information-processing industries 130 7 Technical alliances of Japanese firms: an 'industrial restructuring' account of the latest phase of capitalist development 158 III: Adoption of new technologies and new productive organization 179 8 The Japanization of industry: a review of developments in the UK and Canada 181 9 What about concurrent engineering? 195 10 Rational calculations and information-gathering systems 215 11 Information technologies and educational systems in France, Germany and Italy 234 12 SME competitiveness, new technology, information and formation 248 Index 268 Show more