1. Transfer of technology is anathema to those dedicated to enforcing ITAR in the USA. However, many are coming to realise that the regime is self-defeating, both economically and for security and it is gradually being relaxed.
2. Interview with Michael Griffin, Administrator of NASA, in Space.com, 29 August 2006.
3. America's edge: Power in the Networked century;Slaughter;Foreign Affairs,2009
4. This word was introduced by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams in their book Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Portforlio, 2006.