Thesis ID: CBB001567544

Science, Technology, and Know-How: Exploitation of German Science and the Challenges of Technology Transfer in the Postwar World (2014)

unapi

O'Reagan, Douglas Michael (Author)


Carson, Cathryn
Sargent, Daniel
University of California, Berkeley
Connelly, John
Sargent, Daniel
Mulligan, Deirdre
Connelly, John
Mulligan, Deirdre


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Advisor: Carson, Cathryn; Committee Members: Connelly, John, Sargent, Daniel, Mulligan, Deirdre.
Physical Details: 177 pp.
Language: English

This dissertation is a comparative study of the American, British, and French efforts to exploit German science and technology following the Second World War, and through this, a transnational history of technology transfer, diplomacy, and science-state interaction in the postwar world. In the wake of the importance of science-based technologies in the Second World War, science became closely linked with diplomacy, scientific expertise took on new meanings and importance in government in each of these three nations, and the occupation of Germany created a perceived opportunity to simultaneously shape Germany's future and boost domestic industrial technology. Across the world, the relationships between science and the state changed rapidly in the postwar years, though with important national differences shaped by institutions and values. The central argument of the dissertation is that different assumptions and beliefs about technology transfer, and in particular conceptions of the importance of 'know-how' or tacit knowledge, fundamentally shaped on-the-ground policy decisions in different ways in each of these nations; and that these decisions, in turn, had important consequences for international diplomacy and domestic science and industrial policy in each of these nations. This dissertation examines the ways in which science and technology fundamentally reshaped, and were fundamentally reshaped by, larger forces and trends in twentieth century history. More specifically, these attempts at scientific intelligence gathering on an unprecedented scale drew upon and shaped the national and international structures for communicating science; they tied together science, technology, and intelligence communities in new ways; and they brought the difficulties of technology transfer to the attention of business and legal communities at a crucial time in the development of multinational corporations and internationalization of business.

...More

Description Cited in Dissertation Abstracts International-A 76/02(E), Aug 2015. Proquest Document ID: 1625745601.


Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB001567544/

Similar Citations

Article Paju, Petri; Durnová, Helena; (2009)
Computing Close to the Iron Curtain: Inter/national Computing Practices in Czechoslovakia and Finland, 1945-1970 (/isis/citation/CBB002489161/)

Article Doel, Ronald E.; Friedman, Robert Marc; Lajus, Julia; Sörline, Sverker; Wråkberg, Urban; (2014)
Strategic Arctic Science: National Interests in Building Natural Knowledge---Interwar Era through the Cold War (/isis/citation/CBB001450344/)

Book Leo Marriott; (2019)
Early Jet Bombers, 1944–1954 (/isis/citation/CBB814404699/)

Chapter Neufeld, Michael J.; (2004)
Die Peenemünde raketeningenieure und die entwicklung ballistischer raketen in den USA (/isis/citation/CBB001180301/)

Book Brian E. Crim; (2018)
Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State (/isis/citation/CBB389750546/)

Chapter Sörlin, Sverker; (2013)
Introduction: Polar Extensions---Nordic States and Their Polar Strategies (/isis/citation/CBB001421147/)

Book Sterling Michael Pavelec; (2010)
The Jet Race and the Second World War (/isis/citation/CBB421273028/)

Article Kawamura, Noriko; (2011)
Christopher Dresser's Observation Trip in Japan and Okubo Toshimichi (/isis/citation/CBB001210080/)

Article Ferreiro, Larrie D.; (1998)
Genius and engineering: The naval constructors of France, Britain and the United States (/isis/citation/CBB001180169/)

Book Hartmut Berghoff; Jan Logemann; Felix Römer; (2017)
The Consumer on the Home Front: Second World War Civilian Consumption in Comparative Perspective (/isis/citation/CBB363431823/)

Book Lesch, John E.; (2000)
The German Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century (/isis/citation/CBB000110574/)

Book Medawar, Jean; Pyke, David; (2001)
Hitler's Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelled By the Nazi Regime (/isis/citation/CBB000101880/)

Article Dunlop, Catherine T.; (2013)
Mapping a New Kind of European Boundary: The Language Border between Modern France and Germany (/isis/citation/CBB001320353/)

Authors & Contributors
Sörlin, Sverker
Bryan Hunt
Berghoff, Hartmut
Leo Marriott
Logemann, Jan
Crim, Brian E.
Concepts
Cold War
World War II
Cross-national interaction
Technology transfer
Technology and politics
Technology and war; technology and the military
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
19th century
Places
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Soviet Union
France
Japan
Institutions
Operation Paperclip
Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
Peenemünde (Germany)
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment