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Author Trumbull, Gunnar

Title Silicon and the State : French innovation policy in the Internet age / Gunnar Trumbull
Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 137 pages)
Contents Technology and the State -- The State and the entrepreneur -- Private equity in the shadow of the State -- Minitel and the Internet -- Regulation and the Internet -- Silicon and the State
Summary "In the early 1990s, French officials viewed with some concern the emerging and innovative high-technology sectors of the U.S. and British marketplace. Fearful of falling too far behind, the French government implemented a vast array of policies - from tax incentives for investing in risky high-tech start-ups to new standards for electronic signatures - designed to promote the commercialization of new economy technologies in France. The efforts have turned French innovation policy on its head. Traditional government and bank-financed research and development were replaced by private venture capital
Professionals in France's technical elite - long accustomed to secure career tracks in prestigious laboratories and industrial conglomerates - began moving into risky entrepreneurial ventures. New technologies, once developed exclusively by France's national champions of the marketplace, such as Ariane, Airbus, and Renault, began to be commercialized by technology start-ups."
"Efforts to promote the new economy, however, have proved politically and socially contentious. Many French policymakers and public intellectuals fear that regulatory liberalization might threaten or undermine state sovereignty. Gunnar Trumbull investigates France's experience in adapting to the requirements of innovation in the new information and communications technology (ICT) sectors by focusing on events over a six-year period, from 1996 to 2002." "Silicon and the State provides new insight into the way France has worked to reconcile its traditions of state engagement and social solidarity with the challenges the country faces from new economy technologies."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-127) and index
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Subject Information technology -- Government policy -- France
Technological innovations -- Government policy -- France
Industrial policy -- France
Internet -- Government policy -- France
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Technology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
Industrial policy
Information technology -- Government policy
Internet -- Government policy
Technological innovations -- Government policy
Innovationsförderung
Informationstechnische Industrie
Wetenschapsbeleid.
Technische vernieuwing.
Overheidsbeleid.
Informatietechnologie.
France
Frankreich
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0815796439
9780815796435