Commercializing SDI Technologies

by Bloomsbury Academic

Overview

This highly specialized volume examines the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) for the first time, with critical emphasis on the impact SDI will have on technologically based industries. It reviews the policies and structures in the government, academia, and industry necessary to take full advantage of the commercial potential of the benefits-to-come from the SDI research program.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275923327
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/05/1987
Series:	Praeger Security International
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

STEWART NOZETTE is the founding Vice-President of the Large Scale Programs Institute, faculty member of The University of Texas at Austin Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, and IC2 Institute Senior Research Fellow.

ROBERT LAWRENCE KUHN is a strategist, scientist, author, and lecturer specializing in corporate strategy, financial strategy, commercializing high technology, and creative and innovative management.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
A Point of Departure by Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Foreword by Hans Mark
Introduction by Stewart Nozette
Part I: The Strategic Defense Initiative Program
Defense R&D and National Competitiveness: Past, Present, and Future Prospects by John McTague
The Strategic Defense Initiative Research Program: Conception and Execution by Gerold Yonas
The Strategic Defense Initiative: What, Why, and How by Major General Robert R. Rankine, Jr., USF
Part II: The Commercialization of Technology: President Public Policy
Technology and World Leadership by D. Bruce Merrifield
The Department of Defense Policy Environment on Technology Transfer by Gerald D. Sullivan
Perspectives on Technology Transfer by George Gamot
Part III: Private-Sector Requirements for Successful Commercialization
Collaborative Research and Development by Admiral Bobby R. Inman
Investment Banking Requirements by Wayne G. Fox
Innovative Financing for Emerging Technology Companies by Mark Lancaster
Part IV: SDI Technologies and Spin-Offs
Telecommunications Markets by Gilbert Rye
Automation and Expert Systems by Bruce Bullock
Space Robotics: Commericial Opportunities and Challenges by Ronald L. Larsen
Supercomputer Systems Markets by Lloyd M. Thorndyke
Kinetic Energy Technology by William F. Weldon
Optical Technology by Robert R. Shannon
Advanced Materials for SDI: Promises and Prospects by Stanley I. Weiss
Biotechnology, Bioprocessing Research, and Space: Ingredients for New Health Care Products by Baldwin H. Tom
Part V: Perspectives on Commercialization
Views on SDI Commercial Potential by William Gregory
Perspectives of Commercialization by Richard A. Givens
Collaborative Aspects of Commercialization by Eugene E. Stark, Jr
Case Examples of Commercialization by Robert P. Stromberg
International Technology Transfer Issues: The SDI and Eureka by Rodney W. Jones
Comprehensive National Security: The Power of American Science by Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Summing Up
Initiatives for Commercializaing SDI Technologies by George Kozmetsky
Appendix: The SDI Office of Education and Civil Applications by Colonel Joseph Rougeau