Why has the United States established a new technology transfer
regime, and how does it actually perform? Lee and his contributors
see it as a set of new game rules in which government, industry,
and the academic community are allowed--authorized, in fact--to
interact and collaborate toward the goal of successful
technological innovation. Their book--thus far unique in its
field--reports on the empirical research that examines how various
independent components of the system interact and collaborate. In
doing so the authors provide data and information on which policy
assumptions are valid and which aren't, which rules are helpful and
which are hindrances, and how the various players in this game
assess its future. The result is an important contribution to the
literature that explores the interface of business, government, and
society--essential reading not only for academics, but also for
corporate management concerned with business strategy and
policy.
Lee and the contributors point out that as technologies grow in
complexity, companies often target their internal resources on core
competencies and utilize outside sources for supporting knowledge
or technology. As universities step into the marketplace, trying to
make money through aggressive commercialization of their
intellectual property, they face conflict of interest problems
within their walls, as well as complex and often unfathomable
intellectual property negotiations with the corporations with whom
they deal. Their third major point is that with declining R&D
budgets but increasingly tough competition, American faculty
members are troubled by the collision of two powerful but not
necessarily complementary motives: the need for external funding
for research and the need to preserve academic freedom and
intellectual autonomy. How these issues and problems are dealt with
is carefully and readably explored in this volume, which will
contribute significantly to the ongoing debate.
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