Advanced Materials Innovation: Managing Global Technology In The 21St Century

Incorporating an impressive array of sources and documentation that spans time periods, technological disciplines, and geographies, the author examines the detailed story and trajectory of the most important advanced material technologies of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Each chapter covers a preeminent product or process within a particular advanced material group or category, including: superalloys, organic polymer materials, composites, nanotubes, advanced ceramics, thin films, and bioengineered materials. Each case study follows the emergence, rise, and evolution of a product or process technology within the framework of a coherent, generally chronological narrative.

Dr. Sanford L. Moskowitz is Associate Professor of Global Business at St. John's University and the College of St. Benedict (Collegeville, MN). Dr. Moskowitz specializes in the evolution of advanced global technologies and their markets. He is a consultant to global business in the area of innovation and technological development and has delivered key-note presentations on advanced materials and related technologies at academic and professional conferences within the US and internationally. His views on the future of advanced material development have appeared in such publications as The Economist and Wired Magazine. Dr. Moskowitz is the author of The Advanced Materials Revolution: Technology and Economic Growth in the Age of Globalization (2009, John Wiley & Sons). Dr. Moskowitz holds a B.S. in physics from the City College of New York (CCNY) and an M.S., M. Phil. and Ph.D. in economic and business history from Columbia University (New York, N.Y.).