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Title S & T strategies of six countries : implications for the United States / Committee on Global Science and Technology Strategies and Their Effect on U.S. National Security, Standing Committee on Technology Insight - Gauge, Evaluate and Review, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences ; National Research Council of the National Academies.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 110 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Methodology -- Brazil -- China -- India -- Japan -- Russia -- Singapore -- Military and economic implications of science and technology developments -- Recommended strategies for the United States -- Appendix A. Biographical sketches of Committee members -- Appendix B. Meetings and speakers.
Summary "An increase in global access to goods and knowledge is transforming world-class science and technology (S & T) by bringing it within the capability of an unprecedented number of global parties who must compete for resources, markets, and talent. In particular, globalization has facilitated the success of formal S & T plans in many developing countries, where traditional limitations can now be overcome through the accumulation and global trade of a wide variety of goods, skills, and knowledge. As a result, centers for technological research and development (R & D) are now globally dispersed, setting the stage for greater uncertainty in the political, economic, and security arenas. These changes will have a potentially enormous impact for the U.S. national security policy, which for the past half century was premised on U.S. economic and technological dominance. As the U.S. monopoly on talent and innovation wanes, arms export regulations and restrictions on visas for foreign S & T workers are becoming less useful as security strategies. The acute level of S & T competition among leading countries in the world today suggests that countries that fail to exploit new technologies or that lose the capability for proprietary use of their own new technologies will find their existing industries uncompetitive or obsolete. The increased access to information has transformed the 1950s' paradigm of "control and isolation" of information for innovation control into the current one of "engagement and partnerships" between innovators for innovation creation. Current and future strategies for S & T development need to be considered in light of these new realities. This book analyzes the S & T strategies of Japan, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Singapore (JBRICS), six countries that have either undergone or are undergoing remarkable growth in their S & T capabilities for the purpose of identifying unique national features and how they are utilized in the evolving global S & T environment."--Publisher's description.
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Subject Science and state -- Case studies.
Science and state.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Technology and state -- Case studies.
Technology and state.
Research, Industrial -- Government policy -- Case studies.
Research, Industrial -- Government policy.
Research, Industrial.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Global Science and Technology Strategies and Their Effect on U.S. National Security, author.
Added Title S and T strategies of six countries
Science and technology strategies of six countries
Other Form: Print version: S & T strategies of six countries. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2010 9780309155717 (OCoLC)677860013
ISBN 9780309155724 (electronic book)
030915572X (electronic book)
1282885669
9781282885660
09155711 (paperback)
80309155717 (paperback)
9780309155717
0309155711