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Author Smardon, Bruce, 1955- author.

Title Asleep at the switch : the political economy of federal research and development policy since 1960 / Bruce Smardon.

Publication Info. Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (505 pages).
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Carleton Library Series ; 228
Carleton library series ; 228.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-478) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary Why Canadian industrial R&D remains limited in comparison with other economies - and how federal policy contributes to the problem.
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Language English.
Subject Research, Industrial -- Government policy -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Research, Industrial -- Government policy.
Canada.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Technological innovations -- Government policy -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Technological innovations -- Government policy.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- General.
Research, Industrial.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: 0-7735-4426-7
ISBN 0773596534
9780773596535
9780773596542 (electronic book)
0773596542 (electronic book)
9780773544260
9780773544277