Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Scientific research and national independence: the French view
  • The Atlantic imbalance in science and technology
  • The dimensions of the American challenge
  • The heritage of the Napoleonic systems
  • The American model of a scientific state
  • Reform under the Fourth Republic
  • Science policy under the Fifth Republic
  • The Fifth Plan, 1966-1970
  • Defense, space, and atomic power
  • The balance sheet of modernization: scientific and technical institutions
  • The balance sheet of modernization: the professionalization and governance of science
  • Prospects for a European solution to the technology gap
  • The technology gap in political perspective.