Title

Dancing With The Elephants: Canadian Space Policy In Constant Transition

Keywords

Canada; Canadian science and technology policy; Canadian space policy; Science and technology; Space policy

Abstract

Canadian space policy has long been a struggle for a middle sized economic and technological power to continue operating at the cutting edge of space activities, a field dominated by the superpowers at first. This paper provides a broad perspective within which to evaluate both Canada's past and present space successes and the problems confronting it in the future. The elephants in the past were other public actors both at the national and international level but now have expanded to include private sector actors such as multinational corporations which are more of a threat to the independence of Canadian comparative space activities than the traditional entities such as NASA which was almost smothering in its approach to cooperative activities. © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Publication Title

Technology in Society

Volume

25

Issue

1

Number of Pages

27-42

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0160-791X(02)00064-7

Socpus ID

0037285661 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0037285661

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