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Commercializing SDI Technologies
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Stewart Nozette, Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Book Code: C2332
ISBN: 0-275-92332-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-92332-7
262 pages, app., index
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/5/1987
List Price: $112.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Description: This highly specialized volume examines the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) for the first time, with critical emphasis on the impact SDI will have on technologically based industries. It reviews the policies and structures in the government, academia, and industry necessary to take full advantage of the commercial potential of the benefits-to-come from the SDI research program.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Point of Departure by Robert Lawrence Kuhn
  • Foreword by Hans Mark
  • Introduction by Stewart Nozette
  • Part I: The Strategic Defense Initiative Program
  • Defense R&D and National Competitiveness: Past, Present, and Future Prospects by John McTague
  • The Strategic Defense Initiative Research Program: Conception and Execution by Gerold Yonas
  • The Strategic Defense Initiative: What, Why, and How by Major General Robert R. Rankine, Jr., USF
  • Part II: The Commercialization of Technology: President Public Policy
  • Technology and World Leadership by D. Bruce Merrifield
  • The Department of Defense Policy Environment on Technology Transfer by Gerald D. Sullivan
  • Perspectives on Technology Transfer by George Gamot
  • Part III: Private-Sector Requirements for Successful Commercialization
  • Collaborative Research and Development by Admiral Bobby R. Inman
  • Investment Banking Requirements by Wayne G. Fox
  • Innovative Financing for Emerging Technology Companies by Mark Lancaster
  • Part IV: SDI Technologies and Spin-Offs
  • Telecommunications Markets by Gilbert Rye
  • Automation and Expert Systems by Bruce Bullock
  • Space Robotics: Commericial Opportunities and Challenges by Ronald L. Larsen
  • Supercomputer Systems Markets by Lloyd M. Thorndyke
  • Kinetic Energy Technology by William F. Weldon
  • Optical Technology by Robert R. Shannon
  • Advanced Materials for SDI: Promises and Prospects by Stanley I. Weiss
  • Biotechnology, Bioprocessing Research, and Space: Ingredients for New Health Care Products by Baldwin H. Tom
  • Part V: Perspectives on Commercialization
  • Views on SDI Commercial Potential by William Gregory
  • Perspectives of Commercialization by Richard A. Givens
  • Collaborative Aspects of Commercialization by Eugene E. Stark, Jr
  • Case Examples of Commercialization by Robert P. Stromberg
  • International Technology Transfer Issues: The SDI and Eureka by Rodney W. Jones
  • Comprehensive National Security: The Power of American Science by Robert Lawrence Kuhn
  • Summing Up
  • Initiatives for Commercializaing SDI Technologies by George Kozmetsky
  • Appendix: The SDI Office of Education and Civil Applications by Colonel Joseph Rougeau
LC Card Number: 87-18333
LCC Class: HC110
Dewey Class: 338
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