Innovating for Failure: Government Policy and the Early British Computer Industry
by Hendry, John
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0262081873
- ISBN 13
- 9780262081870
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About This Item
Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: MIT Press, 1990. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. This book is a history of the interaction between the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) and the British computer industry and a case study in the implementation of public innovation; in Britain in the late 1940s, the NRDC was charged with assisting in commercial development of new technologies; this book examines the failure of the NRDC 's effort to establish a British computer industry able to compete internationally and the consequences and implications of this failure (black cloth with red lettering on spine; green dust jacket with black lettering, slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)
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- House of Our Own Books (US)
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- Title
- Innovating for Failure: Government Policy and the Early British Computer Industry
- Author
- Hendry, John
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0262081873
- ISBN 13
- 9780262081870
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1990
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