Technology, science and American innovation

Philip Scranton

Business History, 2006, vol. 48, issue 3, 311-331

Abstract: This article offers for consideration four propositions about business, government, and innovation in the post-World War Two United States, points which may have a wider resonance as well. They concern the long term role of continuous innovation, technology-science relationships, state-led problem setting for innovation, and the 'permanent uncertainties' that arise from Cold War-era technological advance. Each of these has implications for the practice of business history, for conceptualizing innovation, and for our understanding of post-war science-technology trajectories.

Keywords: Innovation; Cold War; Technology; Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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