Knowledge Frontiers: Public Sector Research and Industrial Innovation in Biotechnology, Engineering Ceramics,...

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Wendy Faulkner (Senior Lecturer, Science Studies Unit, Senior Lecturer, Science Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh) Jacqueline Senker (Researcher at Science Policy Research Unit, Researcher at Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex)

Knowledge Frontiers

Public Sector Research and Industrial Innovation in Biotechnology, Engineering Ceramics, and...

Wendy Faulkner (Senior Lecturer, Science Studies Unit, Senior Lecturer, Science Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh), Jacqueline Senker (Researcher at Science Policy Research Unit, Researcher at Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex), Léa Velho

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Oxford University Press
16 February 1995

Hi-tech manufacturing industries; Biotechnology; Ceramics & glass technology; Parallel processing

"Fostering interaction between industry and academic and government laboratories is widely seen as an important means of facilitating growth and innovation in the technology-based industries.

Knowledge Frontiers investigates the research links and knowledge flows between industrial and public sector research in three new and promising fields of advanced technology -

biotechnology, engineering ceramics, and parallel computing.

Differences between these fields suggest that policies to promote public-private research links should be more effectively targeted.

Similarities highlight the general importance to innovation of frontier research in universities, and the need to encourage informal interaction between industrial and public sector researchers.

The book is a valuable addition for scientists, research directors in the public, private, and academic sectors, managers, and policy-makers interested in these new fields and, more broadly, in encouraging collaboration and technology transfer between public sector research and industry.

For those interested in the study of innovation, it also adds to our understanding of the range of technical knolwedge used by companies in innovation.""We could and should improve our performance by making the science and engineering base even more aware of and responsive to the needs of industry and other research users"" - William Waldegrave, Minister for Science, in 1993 White Paper ""Realising Our Potential""."

By: Wendy Faulkner (Senior Lecturer Science Studies Unit Senior Lecturer Science Studies Unit University of Edinburgh), Jacqueline Senker (Researcher at Science Policy Research Unit, Researcher at Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex)
With: Léa Velho
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198288336
ISBN 10: 0198288336
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 16 February 1995
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Knowledge Frontiers: Public Sector Research and Industrial Innovation in Biotechnology, Engineering Ceramics, and Parallel Computing

In an era of dwindling research resources and steady state science, it is essential that the interrelationship between industrial and public sector research (PSR) be clearly understood so that government policies designed to further these linkages can be appropriate and efficacious. This British study is an important step in this process, presenting data drawn from interviews with industrial researchers (from directors to bench workers) in both the US and UK in biotechnology, engineering ceramics, and parallel computing. --Choice<br>