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Science, Technology, and Know-How: Exploitation of German Science and the Challenges of Technology Transfer in the Postwar World
- Douglas O'Reagan
- Political Science
- 2014
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… Expand
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Stealing Nazi Science: Allied Efforts to Acquire German Science and Technology during and after the Second World War
- Douglas O'Reagan
- Political Science
- 13 April 2019
Know-How in Postwar Business and Law
- Douglas O'Reagan
- Economics, Medicine
- Technology and culture
- 2017
In the mid-twentieth century, businesses around the world began to see technical know-how as one of the most important assets they could possess. While their exact definitions of know-how varied… Expand
French Scientific Exploitation and Technology Transfer from Germany in the Diplomatic Context of the Early Cold War
- Douglas O'Reagan
- Political Science
- 15 March 2015
While most discussions of the international efforts at post-war exploitation of German science and technology by the Allied occupation powers assume similar methods and aims across the nations… Expand
The FinFET Breakthrough and Networks of Innovation in the Semiconductor Industry, 1980–2005: Applying Digital Tools to the History of Technology
- Douglas O'Reagan, Douglas Lee Fleming
- Engineering, Medicine
- Technology and culture
- 2018
ABSTRACT:The "FinFET" design for transistors, developed at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1990s, represented a major leap forward in the semiconductor industry. Understanding its… Expand
Who owns a scientist’s mind?
- Douglas O'Reagan
- Sociology
- 1 July 2018
Changes in US law and practice during the 20th century gradually gave businesses more rights to their researchers’ ideas, but controlling knowledge is no easy task.