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About the Author(s)

John Alic writes and consults on policy issues related to technology and science. As a staff member at the congressional Office of Technology Assessment from 1979 to 1995, he directed studies on international competitiveness and technology policy. He is a co-author of Beyond Spinoff: Military and Commercial Technologies in a Changing World, which appeared in 1992, and New Rules for a New Economy: Employment and Opportunity in Postindustrial America, a Century Foundation book published in 1998. Alic is also author or co-author of many over 100 papers, articles, case studies, and book chapters. A graduate of Cornell, Stanford, and the University of Maryland, hHe has taught at several universities, most recently as an adjunct at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

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