The breakthrough illusion : corporate America's failure to move from innovation to mass production
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The breakthrough illusion : corporate America's failure to move from innovation to mass production
Basic Books, c1990
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- : paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-251) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The USA has often failed to capitalise on its technological breakthroughs. This analysis of the weaknesses and strengths of US high technology warns that until the US learns to reconnect research and development with production, foreign companies will continue to prevail in the world marketplace.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: the breakthrough illusion. Part 1 Origins and institutions: how we lost the follow-through
- a new breakthrough system for high technology
- venture capital and the breakthrough bias. Part 2 Limits: the hypermobility of high-tech labour
- silicon valley and route 128 won't save us
- neglecting high-technology manufacture. Part 3 Beyond the breakthrough illusion: competing with Japan - the world's new follow-through economy
- patchwork solutions
- transcending the breakthrough economy.
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