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

Why Canadian industrial R&D remains limited in comparison with other economies - and how federal policy contributes to the problem.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smardon, Bruce (Autor)
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
Colección:Carleton library series ; 228.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.