Ernest Sternberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Planning and Design at the State University of New York, Buffalo.

"This book deals with a very important and timely problem—the debate over whether the U.S. needs an industrial policy to direct high-technology investment in order to make the country more competitive—by providing a comprehensive and very informative account of a key set of technologies. This will be the first book in which this complex of technologies is examined in such breadth and detail." — Sanford Lakoff, University of California, San Diego

• Acknowledgments 1 A Technology and an Argument Introduced 2 The Rise of Photonic Technology 3 Technology as a Common Resource 4 Privatization and the Industrial Policy Debate 5 Disaggregation 6 Collaboration 7 Sheltering 8 Conclusions and Implications Notes Select Bibliography Index

Ernest Sternberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Planning and Design at the State University of New York, Buffalo.

"This book deals with a very important and timely problem—the debate over whether the U.S. needs an industrial policy to direct high-technology investment in order to make the country more competitive—by providing a comprehensive and very informative account of a key set of technologies. This will be the first book in which this complex of technologies is examined in such breadth and detail." — Sanford Lakoff, University of California, San Diego

• Acknowledgments 1 A Technology and an Argument Introduced 2 The Rise of Photonic Technology 3 Technology as a Common Resource 4 Privatization and the Industrial Policy Debate 5 Disaggregation 6 Collaboration 7 Sheltering 8 Conclusions and Implications Notes Select Bibliography Index

Ernest Sternberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Planning and Design at the State University of New York, Buffalo.

"This book deals with a very important and timely problem—the debate over whether the U.S. needs an industrial policy to direct high-technology investment in order to make the country more competitive—by providing a comprehensive and very informative account of a key set of technologies. This will be the first book in which this complex of technologies is examined in such breadth and detail." — Sanford Lakoff, University of California, San Diego

• Acknowledgments 1 A Technology and an Argument Introduced 2 The Rise of Photonic Technology 3 Technology as a Common Resource 4 Privatization and the Industrial Policy Debate 5 Disaggregation 6 Collaboration 7 Sheltering 8 Conclusions and Implications Notes Select Bibliography Index