America Inc.?
America Inc.?

Author: Linda Weiss

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0801471133

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For more than half a century, the United States has led the world in developing major technologies that drive the modern economy and underpin its prosperity. In America, Inc., Linda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex of agencies, programs, and hybrid arrangements that has developed around the institution of permanent defense preparedness and the pursuit of technological supremacy. She examines how that complex emerged and how it has evolved in response to changing geopolitical threats and domestic political constraints, from the Cold War period to the post-9/11 era. Weiss focuses on state-funded venture capital funds, new forms of technology procurement by defense and security-related agencies, and innovation in robotics, nanotechnology, and renewable energy since the 1980s. Weiss argues that the national security state has been the crucible for breakthrough innovations, a catalyst for entrepreneurship and the formation of new firms, and a collaborative network coordinator for private-sector initiatives. Her book appraises persistent myths about the military-commercial relationship at the core of the National Security State. Weiss also discusses the implications for understanding U.S. capitalism, the American state, and the future of American primacy as financialized corporations curtail investment in manufacturing and innovation.

Financing Technology's Frontier
Financing Technology's Frontier

Author: Richard P. Shanley

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2004-03-22

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0471561495

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An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the future of emerging technology industries Financing Technology's Frontier draws upon the experiences of today's most successful venture capitalists and entrepreneurs to provide investment professionals expert insight and powerful tools for identifying and capitalizing on the most promising high-tech and biotech opportunities. It also includes proven business models and many fascinating and instructive case studies that help entrepreneurs, CEOs and CFOs learn from the successes and setbacks of other companies in their sectors. Richard Shanley (New York, NY) is a partner in the Health Services and New Media division at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

Guide to NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Guide to NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Author: DIANE Publishing Company

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1997-07

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780788146237

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Gathers in one place descriptions of NIST's many programs, products, services, and research projects, along with contact names, phone numbers, and e-mail and World Wide Web addresses for further information. It is divided into chapters covering each of NIST's major operating units. In addition, each chapter on laboratory programs includes subheadings for NIST organizational division or subject areas. Covers: electronics and electrical engineering; manufacturing engineering; chemical science and technology; physics; materials science and engineering; building and fire research and information technology.

Write to the Point
Write to the Point

Author: Salvatore J. Iacone

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Published: 2003-02-15

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1601637055

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Practical, proven techniques to make writing for business more effective and less stressful. Thanks to e-mail, voice mail, cell phones, pagers, and, of course, the ever-expanding Web, we live in an age of information overload. Although all these wonders were designed to make life and communication easier and faster, speed and efficiency have come with a price. Clear business writing has never been more difficult or stressful. Writers are expected to respond quickly to an endless flow of e-mail messages. Readers complain about an increasing lack of clarity along with an abundance of mechanical errors. Supervisors and managers are bewildered by employees’ inability to simply say what they mean and the lack of appropriate tone and sense of decorum in the written communications they produce. This book presents proven techniques developed in Dr. Iacone’s seminars that will enable greater ease, proficiency, and clarity in writing. The conversational, instructional format walks you through the actual stages of the writing process—from planning and writing the first draft, to editing and proofreading. This invaluable handbook also includes helpful guidelines to correct punctuation, lists of often-confused words, and step-by-step procedures for generating effective e-mail, memos, letters, and reports.

Nanohybrid Fungicides
Nanohybrid Fungicides

Author: Kamel A Abd-Elsalam

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2023-11-28

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 0443239517

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Nanohybrid Fungicides: Novel Applications in Plant Pathology addresses the opportunities that nano-based fungicides have in Agriculture.Broken into two parts, this book addresses sustainable alternative in fungal plant diseases management, nanoencapsulation applications in fungicides, nano/biofungicides for controlling fungal plant pathogens, and applications. commercialization and remediation of nano fungicides in plant diseases control.Plant scientists, agriculture and food scientists, as well as professionals and students working in related fields will all benefit from this timely resource.• Explains the role of nanohybrid fungicides in agriculture• Addresses nanoencapsulation applications in fungicides• Explores antifungal potential of Nano and Micro-encapsulated phytochemical compounds• Includes the general applications. commercialization and remediation of nanohybrid fungicides

The Process of Internationalization in Emerging SMEs and Emerging Economies
The Process of Internationalization in Emerging SMEs and Emerging Economies

Author: Hamid Etemad

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 178100319X

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This book, the fourth volume in the McGill International Entrepreneurship Series, brings together 27 top scholars to explore the structural complexities, evolving relations and dynamic forces that are shaping a new system of multi-polar, multi-level international business relations. It examines entrepreneurial efforts and relations in different national and corporate cultures, each embedded in and also constrained by country-specific socio-economic structures and each vying for consumer attentions in competitive global markets. The new millennia has experienced much rapid change, much of it implicit, intangible and not covered by the headlines of the popular press. The bipolar business system of the 20th century that prioritized the relationship between firms and consumers of developed countries is giving way to an emerging multi-polar and multi-level international system that considers consumers and companies in developing economies as well. In this book, scholars from around the world analyze the nascent architecture and relations in this quickly evolving system. They explore the structural complexities, evolving relations, and dynamic forces that are shaping and re-shaping the new system and examine entrepreneurial efforts and relations that cement its structure. The chapters in this volume portray the operating conditions of firms across 14 emerging country environments and industries ranging from basic foods and information technology to complex business processes. Students and professors of international business, entrepreneurship, marketing and management studies will find this volume an indispensable addition to the literature.