Doctoral Dissertation Research: Converting the Industrial Assets of Cold War Science

博士论文研究：转换冷战科学的工业资产在安·马库森博士的指导下，乔纳森·费尔德曼先生正在研究主要为军事服务的公司转换的障碍和机会。最成功的国防项目是由能够在工程经验、内部人员和接触外部商业经验（如民用生产文化）之间建立联系的管理者领导的。国防开支的削减和政府的支持刺激了这些公司的多元化。国防采购通过范围经济创造了进入民用市场的能力，这种多样化的能力可以通过分离、发展共同制度和建立促进各部门之间技术转让的机构来重新组织资源来扩大。这些机构包括在公司内部建立合作的系统。利用这些战略的成功项目受益于边做边学，新产品与旧国防或新获得的商业能力之间的联系，以及迫使工程师为民用需求设计的协作系统的存在。协作系统通常与帮助国防公司建立市场的外部用户联系在一起。为了验证这些假设，并发展出一套理论，说明发展民用国防金融、研究和制造能力的制度需求在不断变化，费尔德曼正在研究一些国防公司，以及国防承包商及其关键民用项目的案例研究。

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Converting the Industrial Assets of Cold War Science Under the direction of Dr. Ann Markusen, Mr. Jonathan Feldman is examining the barriers and opportunities for conversion in firms which primarily serve the military. The most successful defense projects are led by managers able to forge links among engineering experience, insiders and exposure to outside commercial experiences such as civilian production culture. Defense cutbacks and supporting regimes spark diversification in these firms. Defense procurement creates capacities for civilian market entry through economies of scope, such capacities for diversification can be extended by reorganizing resources through separatimn, the development of common systems and the creation of institutions which facilitate technology transfer among divisions. Such institutions include systems for forging cooperation within the firm. Successful projects which exploit these strategies benefit from learning by doing, relatedness between new products and old defense or newly acquired commercial capacities and the existence of a collaborative system which forces engineers to design for civilian needs. The collaborative system often is linked to external users who help build markets for defense firms. To test the hypotheses and develop a theory of the changing institutional requirements of developing defense nurtured financial, research and manufacturing capacities for civilian use, Mr. Feldman is studying a number of defense firms and case studies of defense contractors and their key civilian projects.