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The Istanbul General Electric Factory and American Technology Transfer to Turkey

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In 1946, Turkish entrepreneur Vehbi Koc signed an agreement with the U.S. firm General Electric to build and operate its first light bulb factory in the Near/Middle East, in Istanbul. This private joint venture introduced new manufacturing techniques, business practices, and consumer habits to Turkey, opening channels of postwar technological exchange. Closer examination of the GE-Koc partnership reveals that during the early Cold War, the transfer and embedding of American technologies in Turkey was a politically complicated process of innovation that required constant adaptation. Fraught with unforeseeable obstacles, it also required cautious negotiation with multiple transnational actors. The story of the GE-Koc partnership thus adds a new dimension to historical understandings of the Turkish Cold War experience and the Americanization of the region. It illustrates how transferring a nonmilitary, soft-power, domestic technology-the light bulb-played a significant role in Turkish-American relations and therefore contributes to studies of U.S. Cold War diplomacy through transnational investment in innovation.

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  • 来源
    《Technology and culture》 |2022年第3期|749-774|共26页
  • 作者

    TANFER EMIN TUNC; GOKHAN TUNC;

  • 作者单位

    American studies at Hacettepe University, Ankara,Turkey;

    Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《化学文摘》(CA);
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  • 正文语种 英语
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