The technology pork barrel / [edited by] Linda R. Cohen & Roger G. Noll ; with Jeffrey S. Banks, Susan A. Edelman, and William M. Pegram.

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, [1991], ©1991.

xiii, 400 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

New technology and national economic policy ; Government support for commercial R&D ; Efficient management of R&D programs / Linda R. Cohen and Roger G. Noll -- The politics of commercial R&D programs / Jeffrey S. Banks, Linda R. Cohen and Roger G. Noll -- The structure of the case studies / Linda R. Cohen, Roger G. Noll and William M. Pegram -- The American supersonic transport / Susan A. Edelman -- The applications technology satellite program / Linda R. Cohen and Roger G. Noll -- The space shuttle / Jeffrey S. Banks -- The Clinch River breeder reactor ; Synthetic fuels from coal / Linda R. Cohen and Roger G. Noll -- The photovoltaics commercialization program / William M. Pegram -- An assessment of R&D commercialization programs / Linda R. Cohen & Roger G. Noll.