Photonic Technology and Industrial Policy by Ernest Sternberg
Why is the U.S. floundering in this critical new technology? Are market solutions adequate as a national response to such massive technological change? After describing the history and economic implications of photonics, this book places these questions in the context of industrial policy debates about the proper role of government in response to strategic industrial sectors. The author then assesses the U.S. public policy response by examining various government programs directed at photonics. These programs add up to an implicit government photonics policy, but one that is shortsighted, incoherent, and unplanned. Sternberg concludes that it is this failure to plan that explains United States' retrogression in a critical technology."This book deals with a very important and timely problem—the debate over whether the US. needs an industrial policy to direct high-technology investment in order to make the country more competitive—by providing a comprehensive and very informative account of a key set of technologies. This will be the first book in which this complex of technologies is examined in such breadth and detail." — Sanford Lakoff, University of California, San Diego
Ernest Sternberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Planning and Design at the State University of New York, Buffalo.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780791411827 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791411826 |
| Title | Photonic Technology and Industrial Policy |
| Author | Ernest Sternberg |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 1992-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 311 |
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