Organisation of Science and Technology at the Watershed: The Academic and Industrial Perspective (Technology, Innovation and Policy (ISI), 3)

A more detailed understanding of the interaction between science and technology is necessary in order to develop appropriate tools for future R & D management and technology policy. The first part of this book describes the structure of the science/technology interface and analyses the role of science for the generation of new technologies and respective institutional problems. The second part examines the challenges to R & D management and appropriate management tools from the perspective of industrial enterprises. Part III documents the results of two field studies in the science-intensive areas of medical lasers and neural networks. The major aim of the book is to bring together the variety of different approaches from an academic and industrial perspective Front Matter....Pages I-XII The Role of the Scientific Community in the Generation of Technology....Pages 1-138 Challenges to and Management of R&D Activities....Pages 139-266 The Organisation of Interdisciplinarity — Research Structures in the Areas of Medical Lasers and Neural Networks....Pages 267-372 Back Matter....Pages 373-428