Technology and US global competitiveness is a major concern today, and yet there is no study that surveys the key issues describing federal and state policies in the United States. What new technologies are likely to increase our national productivity and international competitiveness in the future? Editors Lambright and Rahm have gathered together a group of experts to provide varying perspectives and recommendations for students, scholars, experts and policymakers to consider. The edited collection describes federal and state programmes, institutions, and changing policy, issues given the new world order of technology and competitiveness. Part 1 analyzes federal competitiveness policy, the decontrolling of technology transfer, the role of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the emerging role of the Department of Defense in Technology Transfer. Part 2 covers turbulent state programmes in the 1990s, state space technology programmes, and basic research and development. Part 3 deals with recent theoretical and organizational approaches to US technology policy, changing international relations and US-Japanese competitiveness, and corporate culture in small high tech firms.