Commercializing SDI Technologies Book

Acknowledgments

A Point of Departure by Robert Lawrence Kuhn

Foreword by Hans Mark

Introduction by Stewart Nozette

Part I: The Strategic Defense Initiative Program

Defense R&D and National Competitiveness: Past, Present, and Future Prospects by John McTague

The Strategic Defense Initiative Research Program: Conception and Execution by Gerold Yonas

The Strategic Defense Initiative: What, Why, and How by Major General Robert R. Rankine, Jr., USF

Part II: The Commercialization of Technology: President Public Policy

Technology and World Leadership by D. Bruce Merrifield

The Department of Defense Policy Environment on Technology Transfer by Gerald D. Sullivan

Perspectives on Technology Transfer by George Gamot

Part III: Private-Sector Requirements for Successful Commercialization

Collaborative Research and Development by Admiral Bobby R. Inman

Investment Banking Requirements by Wayne G. Fox

Innovative Financing for Emerging Technology Companies by Mark Lancaster

Part IV: SDI Technologies and Spin-Offs

Telecommunications Markets by Gilbert Rye

Automation and Expert Systems by Bruce Bullock

Space Robotics: Commericial Opportunities and Challenges by Ronald L. Larsen

Supercomputer Systems Markets by Lloyd M. Thorndyke

Kinetic Energy Technology by William F. Weldon

Optical Technology by Robert R. Shannon

Advanced Materials for SDI: Promises and Prospects by Stanley I. Weiss

Biotechnology, Bioprocessing Research, and Space: Ingredients for New Health Care Products by Baldwin H. Tom

Part V: Perspectives on Commercialization

Views on SDI Commercial Potential by William Gregory

Perspectives ofCommercialization by Richard A. Givens

Collaborative Aspects of Commercialization by Eugene E. Stark, Jr

Case Examples of Commercialization by Robert P. Stromberg

International Technology Transfer Issues: The SDI and Eureka by Rodney W. Jones

Comprehensive National Security: The Power of American Science by Robert Lawrence Kuhn

Summing Up

Initiatives for Commercializaing SDI Technologies by George Kozmetsky

Appendix: The SDI Office of Education and Civil Applications by Colonel Joseph Rougeau