Knowledge Frontiers - Public Sector Research and Industrial Innovation in Biotechnology, Engineering Ceramics, and Parallel Computing (Hardcover, New)

Governments around the world have policies to promote links between industry and academic and government laboratories in order to foster economic growth and innovation in the technology-based industries. Knowledge Frontiers gives new insights into this process and offers an original framework for tracking these interactions. The book shows what 'knowledge' companies want from public sector research, and how they network to get this knowledge in three new and promising fields of advanced technology - biotechnology, engineering ceramics, and parallel computing. The authors first look at some of the background issues - policy issues about links between industry and public sector research; the ways in which science and technology interact in the innovation process; and general developments in each of the technologies examined. They look in more detail at public-private research links in the three areas. They find similarities which point to the general importance to innovation of frontier research in universities, and the need to encourage informal interaction/contact between industrial and public sector researchers. They also find differences between the fields which suggest that the policies to provide research links should be more effectively targeted, as an integral part of the broader objective of fostering 'strategic technologies'. Knowledge Frontiers advances our understanding of the various types of knowledge used in the course of research, design, and development leading to innovation. It is essential reading for those wanting to get to grips with the complex and dynamic realities of the innovation process - be they researchers, managers, or policy makers.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 1995
First published:	April 1995
Authors:	Wendy Faulkner (Senior Lecturer, Science Studies Unit) • Jacqueline Senker (Researcher at Science Policy Research Unit)
As told to:	Lea Velho
Dimensions:	242 x 163 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	278
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-828833-6
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Manufacturing industries > Hi-tech manufacturing industries Books > Professional & Technical > Biochemical engineering > Biotechnology > General Books > Professional & Technical > Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies > Industrial chemistry > Ceramics & glass technology Books > Computing & IT > Computer hardware & operating systems > Computer architecture & logic design > Parallel processing
LSN:	0-19-828833-6
Barcode:	9780198288336

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