This volume examines the role of scientific and technical
information in the innovation process. The authors are primarily
concerned with federally supported scientific and technical
information which can be used to improve technology development for
nondefense purposes--and thus help improve the international
economic competitiveness of the United States. As the authors note
at the outset, the federal government already makes a substantial
investment in creating scientific and technical information. Their
study is designed to first evaluate the ways in which this
investment can be better used to improve our innovation capacity
and then to assess the policy implications for the federal
government and private sector R&D firms.
Divided into three principal parts, the book begins by
discussing the relationship between information and innovation,
with particular emphasis on the use of information in the private
sector. Part II characterizes existing federal policy related to
information, technology transfer, and innovation and examines
whether federally supported R&D is responsive to the needs of
technological development and economic competitiveness. The final
section addresses federal strategies to improve the use of federal
R&D in these areas. Throughout, the authors pay special
attention to issues surrounding the relationships between
information providers and users. An important contribution to the
ongoing debate on U.S. competitiveness abroad, this book offers
important new insights into the ways in which government policy
might be redesigned to help foster higher levels of technological
innovation among U.S. firms.
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