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Author: John Hendry
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0262081873

Innovating for Failure: Government Policy and the Early British Computer Industry (History of Computing)

From computers to body scanners, from hovercraft to monoclonal antibodies, British researchers have been among the world's leaders in scientific discovery and invention. Get Innovating for Failure computer books for free.
But British business has failed repeatedly to exploit these discoveries. This first in-depth history of the early British computer industry provides a valuable case study in the implementation of public innovation policy with lessons for any country trying to compete for sales in international high-technology markets.

The birth of modern computers in Great Britain coincided with the establishment in the late 1940s of the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), which was charged with assisting commercial development of new technologies. John Hendry details Check Innovating for Failure our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.