State-induced technological change in the United States nuclear power industry 1947-1987

Thesis/Dissertation · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:6104976

Bischak, G A

The development of the nuclear power industry in the United States was the consequence of sustained state economic intervention to induce technological change and to promote the private development of civilian nuclear power. State planning, research and development funding, safety regulation and technology transfers from the military to private sector, are the principal instruments by which the state-induced technological change in nuclear power. This dissertation presents a historical and empirical analysis of the political and economic determinants of state-induced technical change. The first three chapters present an economic history showing that state research and regulatory policies determined the direction of technical change through regulation-induced innovations, while the competitive dynamics of the private-sector nuclear development determined the rate of technological change in the nuclear power industry. The next chapter presents an empirical study based on the results of a simultaneous multiple regression analysis of the inter-industry determinants of federal research intensity in the nuclear power industry and 25 other manufacturing and energy industries. A final chapter develops another two-equation simultaneous model to estimate the determinants of federal research intensity in the nuclear industry from 1961 to 1983.

• Research Organization: New School for Social Research, New York (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6104976
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
290500 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Research
Development
Demonstration
& Commercialization
290600* -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Nuclear Energy
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
MATHEMATICS
NORTH AMERICA
NUCLEAR POWER
OWNERSHIP
PLANNING
POLITICAL ASPECTS
POWER
REGRESSION ANALYSIS
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
STATISTICS
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
USA