The Economic Impact of Knowledge (Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy)

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Series: Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy

What happens to our understanding of economics when the vast majority of people within our economy are employed to create ideas, solve problems, or market and sell services rather than to produce tangible goods? How do we measure non-financial "intangibles" such as human capital or the effect of R&D? This anthology explores how economists and public policy makers are re-thinking the way in which governments measure, monitor, and influence an economy in an unbounded global environment where output is largely intangible and organizations are becoming increasingly "non-national" in scope.

Through a collection of seminal articles written by prominent business people, academics, and public policy makers, this three-part anthology examines the key issues surrounding the economic impact of knowledge-based growth, including:

* preparing for the effects of technological change
* understanding the change in traditional economic theory
* how Research and Development will be affected
* who will be the global "knowledge police"?

Most business people think of economics in terms of growth, interest rates, and inflation. This book is unique in that it focuses on the economic impact of knowledge-based growth in order to provide business people with a bigger picture of the knowledge management case for action with their organizations.

The most up-to-date and most relevant articles on the subject
Unique focus on the theme of knowledge
Organized logically, with a foreword to introduce each section

Who's Bashing Whom: Trade Conflict in High Technology Industries

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Who's Bashing Whom: Trade Conflict in High Technology Industries
Laura D'Andrea Tyson
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Technology, Television, and Competition: The Politics of Digital TV

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Technology, Television, and Competition: The Politics of Digital TV
Jeffrey A. Hart
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ASIN: 0521826241

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The advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analog television infrastructure with a new digital one in the late 1980s and 1990s. Jeffrey Hart's study demonstrates how nationalism and regionalism combined with conflicting ideas over technology to produce three different and incompatible DTV standards in the U.S., Japan and Europe. The outcome has led to missed opportunities in developing new technologies. Hart's work contributes to our understanding of relations between business and government, and of competition between the world's great economic powers.

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Thoughtful and well-documented (from CIO Magazine)
Invaluable reading for entrepreneurs and managers!
Impressive reading for strategic technology management.

Growth Warriors
Ronald Mascitelli
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ASIN: 0966269705

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The Growth Warriors presents a detailed analysis of the global competitiveness of America's high-technology industries, and identifies successful strategies that have enabled leading high-tech firms to gain a sustainable competitive advantage in international markets. It includes numerous case examples and notible quotes from the fields of telecommunications, information technology, biotechnology, and semiconductors.

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Thoughtful and well-documented (from CIO Magazine).......1999-05-13

From Sheila Neylon in CIO Magazine, May 15, 1999:

Sponges, though they lack a sophisticated structure, thrive by absorbing sustenance from their environment. In The Growth Warriors, Ronald Mascitelli, former senior scientist and R&D director at Hughes Electronics Corp. and the Santa Barbara Research Center, asserts that companies unwilling or unable to absorb ideas from what goes on around them can never thrive. He compares the vertically structured, secretive and hierarchical failure that was the Route 128 enclave in Massachusetts, represented by Digital Equipment Corp. and its ilk, with the horizontal and collaborative success that is the Silicon Valley of Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. He goes on to highlight the benefits of geographical technology clusters in which venture capitalists rub elbows with programmers who meet hardware designers who eat with university faculty, producing a crosspollination of ideas.

Mascitelli uses the metaphor of pruning a rosebush to illustrate his idea that a "continuous process of creative destruction" is a way to avoid the typical business boom-and-bust cycle. Like a growing number of other people, he warns of the disaster that awaits those who force growth to appease shareholder appetites, and he explodes the myth of technoglobalization (most innovation is still done in the home country of multinational companies) but predicts that foreign countries will solicit and perform more R&D even as Americans learn about the competitive benefits of overseas R&D.

Many chapters offer boxes that encapsulate that chapter's theme. Thoughtful and well-documented, The Growth Warriors hits the mark.

Invaluable reading for entrepreneurs and managers!.......1999-01-30

The Growth Warriors is an invaluable resource for both early and mature stage technology companies. Mascitelli exhaustively documents the current competitive environment for technology companies and identifies many of the key issues necessary for sustained global competition. A must read for high-tech entrepreneurs and managers.

-Jonathan Dariyanani, Attorney - Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati

Impressive reading for strategic technology management........1999-01-22

"The Growth Warriors paints a vivid picture of the challenges faced by managers in dynamic technology industries. The chapters on regional technology clusters, strategic roadmapping, and adaptable market strategies provide practical tools to build a sustainable competitive advantage. This impressive book should be required reading for any serious practitioner of technology management."

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In such areas as civil aircraft, semiconductors, high definition television, robotics, and superconductors, states are subsidizing their national champions and competing for market share in the "industries of tomorrow." This book explains why states intervene and (or) retaliate in some high technology industries, but not in others, and how these commercial rivalries are likely to unfold. Dr. Busch argues that states subsidize national champions in industries promising externalities for domestic industries, spend more on subsidies where these benefits do not escape national borders, and are more likely to bring these commercial rivalries back from the brink of a trade war where these subsidies leave both states worse off.

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A tour de force, truly innovative........1999-10-27

This book is just tremendous. Why do states promote "national champion" industries in some cases but not in others? When do such subsidies result in costly trade wars? Economists in the 1980s made their name with the heretical argument that intervening on behalf of key industries could be beneficial (with caveats). Busch takes the necessary extra step, explaining the political reasons why leaders have taken this economic advice to heart sometimes too closely and other times not closely enough. Along the way he debunks the common view that trade policy is purely the product of industry porkbarreling, and he introduces surprising evidence about cases government "should" have intervened more but didn't. If you are going to read just one thing about how states can promote competitiveness in the global high-tech economy, here is the book for you.

Defining Vision: How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television, Updated and Expanded

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Roller-coaster ride through digital TV history
A must read if you want to understand the origins of HDTV
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Defining Vision: How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television, Updated and Expanded
Joel Brinkley
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High-definition television (HDTV) will dramatically increase the quality of the display of traditional television as well as the much-anticipated set-top-box computer/television hybrids. And every major electronics company--and the U.S. and Japanese governments--is already imagining the unimaginably large financial rewards to be reaped by those lucky enough to have perfected the right gear at the right time: just about every piece of hardware in the television industry will be replaced or supplanted, from your television to the international broadcast infrastructure.

Brinkley's book introduces us to the major institutions and individuals from industry, government, and academia involved in this frantic race, and does an admirable job of untangling their labyrinthine relations. My only quibble with the book is that it should have included at least a few color photos of HDTV compared to regular TV. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the future of television technology--before it happens.

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In this account of the political wrangling and technological breakthroughs that led to the creation of HDTV, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter “does for television...what Tracy Kidder did for computers” (Kirkus Reviews). Index.

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Roller-coaster ride through digital TV history.......2004-01-14

In the early 1980s US broadcasters faced two major headaches spawned by greed and jingoism. Their comfortable, tidy, oligopolistic-and profitable-broadcast world was about to be shaken by the digital revolution, where foes and friends were often indistinguishable. New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Joel Brinkley takes the reader on a roller coaster through boardrooms, bureaucracy, technocracy, and hubris (individual and national) in "Defining Vision." It is a ride worth taking for broadcast students, educators, historians, and international political economists.

Represented by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), radio and television companies considered the broadcast band spectrum their personal property. This largesse suddenly came under assault from the land mobile industry that wanted more spectrum space for a variety of public interest broadcast services such as police, firefighters, ambulance, quick response units, and other emergency services. Broadcasters, too, saw a new threat from across the sea. The Japanese spent $300 million and hundreds of thousands of engineering man-hours developing high definition television (HDTV). NHK unveiled its Muse system in 1986 to US policymakers and consumers. The picture quality was superior to the current analog systems in the United Sates, and Japanese-made monitors were designed to fit the wider formatted movies without the annoying letterbox effect.

Brinkley chronicles the scrimmages involving development of HDTV in the US like a general writing his wartime memoirs-if that general had access to the thinking of his opposition, that is. First the grand alliance-RCA, Zenith, AT&T, Phillips, General Instruments and MIT-had to admit that a victory by any one of them in the costly race to develop HDTV would be a defeat for the others. They were able to convince a willing FCC Advisory Committee that cooperation was possible in building a single system. Committee chairman Richard Wiley's role in HDTV cannot be understated (and Brinkley doesn't). His single-minded pursuit of high definition television as the national (and, it turned out, international) standard most probably resulted in its acceptance.

US broadcasters had worried privately and publicly as well, that the future of television would be dictated by a consortium of Japanese electronics magnates and NHK, the world's second-largest broadcasting company. Across the Atlantic, the European Union was equally concerned, and promised up to a billion dollars to Europeans to come up for a system on its own or else adopt the Japanese HDTV, since the Americans seemed not to be players in the game as the century's ninth decade unfolded. But the European effort never got off paper. US broadcasters at first fretted about a new "yellow peril" that posed as great a threat to them as it did to the automobile industry a decade earlier. Ever opportunistic, however, broadcasters found the Japanese an unlikely ally in their fight to snatch the unused frequencies from land mobile companies. HDTV, as the Muse system showed, required additional bandwidth space. Obviously, they reasoned, Congress and the FCC could not allocate precious broadcast spectrum space to land mobile users when they, the "rightful frequency heirs," needed the frequencies for HDTV.

At the same time, MIT's Nicholas Negroponte, who Brinkley treats somewhat derisively, was telling anyone who would listen that "HDTV had to be digital," not analog, which would allow for signal compression that would fit into existing frequencies. One naysayer echoed a common broadcast engineering complaint at the time: "we will have digital HDTV when we have anti-gravitation machines." Broadcast engineers at the major manufacturers nodded in agreement: digital high definition television technologically could not be done. The NAB, in its attempt to protect its space band largesse, inadvertently kicked off a race to develop HDTV in the United States that took on the trappings of a crusade to "rescue" the future of television in the United States from the hands of foreign interests. Along the way, General Instruments research engineer Woo Paik invented digital television (because, as a non-broadcast engineer, he didn't know that "it was impossible").

HDTV uses a compressed digital broadcast signal that not only remained within a single frequency but allowed broadcasters additional capacity to sell secondary services such as pager services, email, Internet connections, digital music, and pay-per-view movies. With such an entrée to new revenue flows, the reader would be surprised to learn the depth of NAB's animus to HDTV. Simply put, broadcasters used the HDTV concept to wrest away additional public airwaves spectra and then, among themselves, grumbled that they were unwilling to invest in new high definition cameras, monitors, and other equipment that would allow them to broadcast signals in both progressive scan (favored by the computer programming and manufacturing sector) and interlaced (favored by broadcasters) modes. Another opponent of a high definition television standard was the fledgling computer manufacturing industry in the mid-1990s, which didn't want the additional expense of adding interlacing decoding to what essentially was a dedicated proscan system.

After seven years of ups and downs in a process that often threatened to sputter, splinter, and spin totally out of control, HDTV in a digital form arrived in the US shortly after Thanksgiving in 1997. Despite all predictions to the contrary, the HDTV "turkey" arrived fully stuffed with enough goodies to ease its transition into the marketplace. The result was acceptance of the Americanized international standard by the European Union and the final, if not sad, acknowledgment by NHK that its analog Muse system was outmoded before it even got much beyond a toehold in its native land.

In "Defining Vision," Brinkley has crafted a highly readable, almost techno-mystery story with well-defined characters: heroes, villains, and rascals alike. At times he seems to get into the heads of the key players, which he explains as a literary device borne from extensive interviews with the principals who told him what they were thinking at the time. The effect rounds the edges of what could have been a highly technical, heuristic, and sloggish recitation of engineering reports, public hearings, and dreary diary entries from the participants. To his credit, the author explains his process to readers in an epilogue, thus enhancing the book's credibility. Furthermore, in this paperback edition, the author has updated and expanded several sections over the hardcover version, including an appendix and FAQ that are instructional.

A must read if you want to understand the origins of HDTV.......2001-02-08

I work in the television broadcast industry and this is a must read if you want to learn about the origins of HDTV, the players who made HDTV a reality, and how the standards for HDTV were defined. The author is an authority on the subject and provides an excellent description of the systems, history, etc. that both technical and business professionals can understand. At my company this has become required reading. I highly recommend this book.

Can't Wait for the Sequel.......2000-10-15

I'm reading this book a second time (a year later) because it's such a great introduction to players in the HDTV world. Brinkley chose a suspense style, and it really works well. I am excited about HDTV and turned each page holding my breath - hoping for a successful conclusion. Now I'm looking for more works that go beyond 1998, and can't find any more fulfilling...and the story isn't over yet!

the best behind-the-scenes telling of the story as we'll get.......1999-10-24

DEFINING VISION by Joel Brinkley is as comprehensive as any history behind the development of HDTV/DTV can ever possibly get. The text of this book will surely be required possessions for technological historians for at least the next 1000 years.

Good job at tying together all the pieces and viewpoints........1999-04-01

Having had the opportunity to check the authenticity with several of the principles in the book, my hat's off to Joel Brinkley. He ties all the factions together that brought us DTV. It is a story with more twists and turns than you expect that comes mixing an industry that hates to change with new technology. Add in the governments of the U.S. and Japan, and it really becomes fun. Mr. Brinkley did a masterful job telling the story. This is a must read for anyone interested in television.

Best of show winners, 1995-1996: International Online Communication Competition: International Technical Art Competition, International Technical Publications ... An article from: Technical Communication

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Best of show winners, 1995-1996: International Online Communication Competition: International Technical Art Competition, International Technical Publications ... An article from: Technical Communication

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From the supplier: Outstanding examples of technical communication in 1995 were recognized by the Society of Technical Communicators. The winners included a corporate demonstration CD-ROM for AT&T, a poster series for NASA and an animated video on breast cancer.

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Canadian High-Tech in a New World Economy: A Case Study of Information Technology

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David W. Conklin , and France St-Hilaire
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Competition Grows for U.S. Tech Dominance.(Brief Article)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included): An article from: San Diego Business Journal

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Competitive Industrial Development in the Age of Information: The Role of Co-operation in the Technology Sector (Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy, 12)

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Richard Braudo
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Drawing on detailed case studies of technology sector industries, this book provides theoretical and empirical analyses of changing economies and changing policy needs. With contributors from academic, legal, financial and policy advisory backgrounds, it advances research into policy questions of increasing importance.

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