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5. 2See, for example, the observations of Ed Zchau, a member of Congress in the 1980s from Silicon Valley, in his article, "Government Policies for Innovation and Growth" in National Research Council The Positive Sum Strategy, Harnessing Technology for Economic Growth, op.cit., pp.
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of the U.S. semiconductor industry, now taken for granted, was not assured in the mid-1980s.
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AnnaLee Saxenian, Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. For a perspective on the federal role in Silicon Valley, see Timothy Sturgeon, "How Silicon Valley Came to Be," in Martin Kenney, ea., Understanding Silicon Valley, The Anatomy of an Entrepreneurial Region, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.
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This is one of the rationales for the awards of the Advanced Technology Program. For an assessment of this program, see National Research Council, The Advanced Technology Program: Assessing Outcomes, op.cit.
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THE PACE OF TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH U.S. policy makers at the state and federal levels have focused their attention increasingly on high-technology industry and the new technologies and entrepreneurial activities that support themes Their concern is supported by a growing i6The dynamic nature of international competition in high-technology industries is discussed in National Research Council, Conflict and Cooperation in National Competition for High-Technology Industry, 1996, op.
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Such firms in turn tend to gain market share, create new product markets, and use resources more productively than traditional industries do.20 High-technology firms perform more R&D than traditional firms do and generate more high-wage employment. In fact, these firms are distinguished by the high percentage of revenue devoted to research: 10 percent of revenues on R&D, in contrast to 3 percent of revenues on R&D for more traditional industries.
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26See National Research Council, The Small Business Innovation Research Program: An Assessment of the Department of Defense Fast Track Initiative.
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42 G O VERNMENT- IND US TR Y PA R TNER SHIP S 28Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Is There a New Economy? A First Report on the OECD Growth Project.
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35For a discussion of the opportunities and challenges facing the New Economy, see National Research Council, Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy.
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See Kenneth Flamm, Creating the Computer, Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1988. The Committee's study of public-private partnerships has not systematically explored the important role of government procurement.
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