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The Business of Science: Winning and Losing in the High-Tech Age

By: Simon Ramo

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Simon Ramo is exceptionally well qualified to write of the challenges to the nation as it seeks to regain its world leadership in science and the new technology. He writes from a background of more than fifty years' experience at General Electric, Hughes Aircraft, and TRW-which he co-founded and of working closely with leaders in the highest councils of government. In these years he participated actively in the growing and inevitable relation between science, business, and government since the cost of research and development has grown beyond the capability of even the largest corporation.

Dr. Ramo's incisive recollections are full of warmth and humor, never more so than in the rueful description of his relationship with Howard Hughes. He brings to life innumerable meetings in Washington over the years, with John von Neumann and other leading scientists, Charles "Engine" Wilson, Robert McNamara, Nelson Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Donald Regan, George Shultz, and James Fletcher, among others. Dr. Ramo found government officials for the most part ill equipped to comprehend the impact of science and technology on the country. All too often scientists, engineers, and businessmen spoke a different language from our country's leaders.

Dr. Ramo-physicist and imaginative executive-deals with the urgent need for nuclear disarmament and for increased cooperation between the United States, leading industrial nations, and the developing world. To regain our eminence as scientific / technological entrepreneurs, he contends that it is imperative for the U.S. government to work even more closely with the scientific community in our universities and industry to meet the virtually unlimited challenges in genetics, space, computer science, and energy, and to improve the education of our youth. 
ISBN:0809032554

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Weight 545 g
Dimensions 235 ร— 160 ร— 27 mm
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ISBN 0809032554