Product Description: This volume is the outcome of an internationally attended NATO workshop, held at the University of Manchester in June 1999. This meeting focused on the role of government scientific research laboratories in the 21st century. The result is a compilation of representations from Western countries and the former Soviet Union, which addresses national issues of societies in transition and examines and interprets current situations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book draws on the ten nation CREDIT (Capacity for Research on European Defence and Industrial Technology) network which was set up to tackle issue concerning defence science, technology and industrial policy, including the implications of the Cold War and a growing pan-European emphasis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book arises from a meeting held at Wiston House, Sussex, UK, in September 1987. The meeting brought together academic, governmental and industrial experts from eight countries to discuss the increasingly important sUbject of the relations between civil and defence technologies...read more