TY - JOUR
T1 - Technology transfer and communication
T2 - Lessons from Silicon Valley, Route 128, Carolina's Research Triangle and hi-tech Texas
AU - Irwin, Harry
AU - More, Elizabeth
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - Expenence from the 1980s has demonstrated that commonly used “automatic” and “dissemination/diffusion” models of technology transfer are inadequate to guide practice in the 1990s Technology transfer is an increasingly complex process, fraught with difficulties. Understanding technology transfer, and initiating actions to assist it to occur, is facilitated by conceptualising transfer as a communication process involving ongoing interaction and negotiation of meanings between researchers and clients Implications for practice of the adoption of a communica tion model of technology transfer are analysed, with particular attention being paid to the need for boundary spanning “go betweens”, or “linkage champions”, to manage the vital com munication aspects of technology transfer.
AB - Expenence from the 1980s has demonstrated that commonly used “automatic” and “dissemination/diffusion” models of technology transfer are inadequate to guide practice in the 1990s Technology transfer is an increasingly complex process, fraught with difficulties. Understanding technology transfer, and initiating actions to assist it to occur, is facilitated by conceptualising transfer as a communication process involving ongoing interaction and negotiation of meanings between researchers and clients Implications for practice of the adoption of a communica tion model of technology transfer are analysed, with particular attention being paid to the need for boundary spanning “go betweens”, or “linkage champions”, to manage the vital com munication aspects of technology transfer.
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U2 - 10.1177/016555159101700503
DO - 10.1177/016555159101700503
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0026401931
SN - 0165-5515
VL - 17
SP - 273
EP - 280
JO - Journal of Information Science
JF - Journal of Information Science
IS - 5
ER -