Industrial Competitiveness and Technological Advancement: Debate Over Government Policy

Abstract

There is on-going interest in the pace of U.S. technological advancement due to its influence on U.S. economic growth productivity, and international competitiveness. Because technology can contribute to economic growth and productivity increases, congressional interest has focused on how to augment private-sector technological development. Legislative activity over the past decade has created a policy for technology development, albeit an ad hoc one. Because of the lack of consensus on the scope and direction of a national policy, Congress has taken an incremental approach aimed at creating new mechanisms to facilitate technological advancement in particular areas and making changes and improvements as necessary.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 11, 2005
Accession Number
ADA469476

Entities

People

  • Wendy H. Schacht

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biological Sciences
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Economic Systems
  • Governments
  • Intellectual Property
  • Investments
  • Law
  • National Governments
  • Patents
  • Public Policy
  • Small Business
  • Standards
  • Technology Transfer
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Political science

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