Information Technology Policy An International History

by Coopey, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780199241057
• ISBN10: 0199241058
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book brings together a series of country-based studies to examine, in depth, the nature and extent of IT policies as they have evolved from a complex historical interaction of politics, technology, institutions, and social and cultural factors. In doing so many key questions are critically examined. Where can we find successful examples of IT policy? Who has shaped policy? Who did governments turn to for advice in framing policy? Several chapters outline the impact of military influence on IT. What is the precise nature of this influence on IT development? How closely were industry leaders linked to government programs and to what extent were these programs, particularly those aimed at the generation of 'national champions', misconceived through undue special pleading? How effective were government personnel and politicians in assessing the merits of programs predicated on technological trajectories extrapolated from increasingly complex and specialized information? This book will be of interest to academics and graduate students of Management Studies, History, Economics, and Technology Studies, and Government and Corporate policy makers engaged with technology policy.

Author Biography

Richard Coopey is Senior Research Fellow at the Business History Unit, London School of Economics, where he has been working since 1996 on the Warwick/LSE ESRC-funded project on IT policy history in postwar Britain. He is the co-author of 3i: Fifty Years Investing in Industry (OUP, 1995).

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	vii
Notes on Contributors	ix
Abbreviations	xiii
Information Technology Policy: Competing for the Future	1	(23)
Richard Coopey
The Shifting Interests of the US Government in the Development and Diffusion of Information Technology Since 1943	24	(30)
Arthur L. Norberg
The Supply of Information Technology Workers, Higher Education, and Computing Research: A History of Policy and Practice in the United States	54	(43)
William Aspray
Public Policies, Private Platforms: Antitrust and American Computing	97	(24)
Steven W. Usselman
``Beat IBM.'' Entrepreneurial Bureaucracy: A Contradiction in Terms?	121	(23)
Seiichiro Yonekura
Empire and Technology: Information Technology Policy in Postwar Britain and France	144	(25)
Richard Coopey
From National Champions to Little Ventures: The NEB and the Second Wave of Information Technology in Britain, 1975--1985	169	(18)
Martin Campbell-Kelly
Ross Hamilton
The Influence of Dutch and EU Government Policies on Philips' Information Technology Product Strategy	187	(22)
Jan van den Ende
Nachoem Wijnberg
Albert Meijer
Politics, Business, and European Information Technology Policy: From the Treaty of Rome to Unidata, 1958--1975	209	(38)
Eda Kranakis
ESPRIT: Europe's Response to US and Japanese Domination in Information Technology	247	(17)
Dimitris Assimakopoulos
Rebecca Marschan-Piekkari
Stuart Macdonald
The Rise and Fall of State Information Technology Planning---or How Norwegian Planners Became Captains of Industry, 1960--1990	264	(12)
Knut Sogner
Facing In, Facing Out: Information Technology Production Policy in India from the 1960s to the 1990s	276	(28)
Richard Heeks
Information Technology Policy in the USSR and Ukraine: Achievements and Failures	304	(16)
Boris Malinovsky
Lev Malinovsky
Romania's Hardware and Software Industry: Building Information Technology Policy and Capabilities in a Transitional Economy	320	(19)
Richard Heeks
Mihaiela Grundey
Index	339