The Conflicted Superpower : : America's Collaboration with China and India in Global Innovation / / Andrew Kennedy.

For decades, leadership in technological innovation has sustained U.S. power worldwide. Today, however, processes that undergird innovation increasingly transcend national borders. Cross-border flows of brainpower have reached unprecedented heights, while multinationals invest more and more in high-...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American-East Asian Relations
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 5 b&w illustrations
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
INTRODUCTION --
1. THE RISE OF GLOBAL INNOVATION --
2. INNOVATION LEADERSHIP AND CONTESTED OPENNESS --
3. THE SWINGING DOOR: Skilled Workers --
4. THE OPEN DOOR: Foreign Students --
5. THE (MOSTLY) OPEN DOOR: Global R&D --
CONCLUSION --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index
Summary:For decades, leadership in technological innovation has sustained U.S. power worldwide. Today, however, processes that undergird innovation increasingly transcend national borders. Cross-border flows of brainpower have reached unprecedented heights, while multinationals invest more and more in high-tech facilities abroad. In this new world, U.S. technological leadership increasingly involves collaboration with other countries. China and India have emerged as particularly prominent partners, most notably as suppliers of intellectual talent to the United States. In The Conflicted Superpower, Andrew Kennedy explores how the world's most powerful country approaches its growing collaboration with these two rising powers.Whereas China and India have embraced global innovation, policy in the United States is conflicted. Kennedy explains why, through in-depth case studies of U.S. policies toward skilled immigration, foreign students, and offshoring. These make clear that U.S. policy is more erratic than strategic, the outcome of domestic battles between competing interests. Pressing for openness is the "high-tech community"-the technology firms and research universities that embody U.S. technological leadership. Yet these pro-globalization forces can face resistance from a range of other interests, including labor and anti-immigration groups, and the nature of this resistance powerfully shapes just how open national policy is. Kennedy concludes by asking whether U.S. policies are accelerating or slowing American decline, and considering the prospects for U.S. policy making in years to come.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780231546201
9783110606607
9783110604252
9783110603255
9783110604016
9783110603231
DOI:10.7312/kenn18554
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Andrew Kennedy.