Spring 2015 - 61200 - PA388K - Advanced Topics in Public Policy

Technological Innovation in Defense

To form a means of analysis, this course will examine the theory of the factors on motivation and practice that lead to innovation in technologies that obviate old practice and create new, often unanticipated capabilities.  Following a number of wartime and crisis innovations, we will form a framework for the practice that seems to work most of the time.  Students will be evaluated based on involvement in class and on a 12 to 15 page research paper.