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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798686603321

Autore

Tromblay Darren E.

Titolo

Securing U.S. innovation : the challenge of preserving a competitive advantage in the creation of knowledge / / Darren E. Tromblay and Robert G. Spelbrink

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4422-5636-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

338/.0640973

Soggetti

Technological innovations - Government policy - United States

Technology and state - United States

Technology transfer - Government policy - United States

Public-private sector cooperation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Ch01. Theoretical and Legal Framework for Understanding the Role of Intelligence in Securing Innovation; Ch02. Entities Responsible for Securing U.S. Capacities for Innovation; Ch03. Institutions of Innovation Intelligence Collection; Ch04. Selling Out; Ch05. Selling Out Part II; Ch06. Buying In; Ch07. Buying In Part II; Ch08. The Evolving Relationship between the U.S. Government and Industry in Innovation and Implications for National Security; Ch09. Impacts of Innovation Theft on U.S. National Security

Ch10. Defending Against and Disrupting Threats to InnovationConclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

As experienced by the United States, competition has played out in three distinct types of threat activity: sabotage (the destruction of capabilities), espionage (the theft of specific capabilities), and defection (the carrying of knowledge out of the country). Today, the changing innovation environment has created new challenges. Significant advances are being made in start-ups as well as larger companies who no longer rely on U.S. government contracts. Not only does this place a key element of national power in the hands of the private sector, but it



often leaves Washington at an information