experienced a harsh trade competition, particularly from Japan. During this time, both Congress and the Executive Branch took initiatives to develop small business and boost technology transfers from university and government laboratories. In contrast to the current perception of unskilled government bureaucrats, these programs, like ARPA, relied on high levels of expertise among program managers. Because of their majority was on the side of success, most of the industrial policy experiments initiated in the 80s have been renewed, and still exist today.
As said in the context of economic brokering, it had always been part of the ARPA model to worry about the economic ability of enterprises to work successfully. The ARPA model has spread to other agencies, thus having an emphasis on economic brokering. On the other hand, where NIH operated from a developmental logic of its own, ended up paralleling ARPA’s achievements. In 1975, NIH supported only two recombinant DNA research