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Who is Leading Innovation? German Computer Policies, the ‘American Challenge’ and the Technological Race of the 1960s and 1970s

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dc.creatorHomberg, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-09T07:27:24Z
dc.date.available2021-07-09T07:27:24Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe ‘American Challenge’ predominantly shaped the Eastern and Western European innovation cultures of the 1960s and 1970s. In both German states, national IT policies aimed at reducing the technological gap between their local computer industries and the leading US hardware manufacturers. While European initiatives to promote computer technology started to gain traction, the persistence of national data policies, which were in conflict with the standardisation of the organisational, technical and institutional requirements of computerisation, remained efficacious. During the Cold War, national data policies neutralised the best laid plans of technocrats. In the 1960s, the technological arms race between the FRG and the GDR reached the computer sector. As both German states entered the information age, the promotion of computer science and data processing was carried out with similarly ambitious research programmes, huge financial and personal resources, and initially comparable innovation cycles. However, in the end, fatal political decisions, bureaucratic planning obstacles, conflicts within collaboration, but above all the lack of funds for investment impeded the process, especially behind the iron curtain.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/8069
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/16238
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/17089
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSFB 1187 "Medien der Kooperation" an der Universität Siegen
dc.publisher.placeSiegen
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2567-9104
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMedia in Action. Interdisciplinary Journal on Cooperative Media
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectComputerrichtliniende
dc.subjectIT-Industriede
dc.subjectKalter Kriegde
dc.subjectAmerikanische Herausforderungde
dc.subjectTechnologische Lückede
dc.subjectComputer Policiesen
dc.subjectIT-Industry (FRG/GDR)en
dc.subjectCold Waren
dc.subjectTechnological gapen
dc.subjectAmerican Challengeen
dc.subject.ddcddc:302.23
dc.titleWho is Leading Innovation? German Computer Policies, the ‘American Challenge’ and the Technological Race of the 1960s and 1970sen
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dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2021-07-12T20:51:53
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/8069
local.source.epage114
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleFundaments of Digitisation
local.source.spage93

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