Asleep at the switch : the political economy of federal research and development policy since 1960 / Bruce Smardon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smardon, Bruce, author.

Series:

Carleton library series ; 228.

Carleton Library Series ; 228

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Research, Industrial--Government policy--Canada--History--20th century.

Research, Industrial.

Technological innovations--Government policy--Canada--History--20th century.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why Canadian industrial R&D remains limited in comparison with other economies - and how federal policy contributes to the problem.

Contents:

Introduction: The Canadian Federal State and Domestic Technological Development

Promoting Domestic Technological Capacities: State Strategies and Social Antagonisms

Part one : Permutations of dependent technological development : from early Fordism to neoliberal restructuring. Entrenching Dependent Technological Development: Canadian Fordism in the Early Twentieth Century

Reasserting Dependent Technological Development: Canadian Fordism in the Postwar "Golden Age"

Another Form of Dependent Technological Development: Post-Fordist Accumulation in the Neoliberal Era

Part two : Permutations of the Glassco framework : promoting R&D from Diefenbaker to Chrétien. Beginning the Process: The Diefenbaker Tories and R&D Incentive Programs, 1957-63

Internal Struggles: Left-Liberals, the Glassco Framework, and R&D Policy, 1963-68

Further Contestation: The Gray Initiative, 1968-71

Limiting Change: Industrial Restructuring and Social Forces, 1971-73

Extending the Glassco Framework: R&D Policy in the 1970's

Moving to the Right: The Trudeau Liberals and R&D Incentive Programs, 1981-84

Last Challenge to Transnational Capital: Left-Liberals and State Led Strategies, 1980-81

The Glassco Framework in an Era of Free Trade: The Mulroney Tories and R&D Policy, 1984-93

Final Episode: Transformative Strategies, the Glassco Framework, and the Chrétien Liberals, 1993-2000

Conclusion: The Impasse of the Federal State and Canadian Industrial R&D.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-478) and index.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 18, 2014).

ISBN:

9780773596542

0773596542

9780773596535

0773596534

OCLC:

900244418