Technology transfer has expanded rapidly over the past 20 years in Western Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim. It has been estimated that some 50% of new products and processes will originate outside the primary developer; academic and other research institutions are obvious sources of much of this new technology.
In the NATO Co-operating countries, however, technology transfer is in its infancy; it is crucial for wealth creation and improvement in the quality of life that this mechanism is developed. The papers selected for inclusion in this book discuss issues related to the development of technology transfer in NATO Co-operating countries. The book identifies crucial research issues for science and technology policy researchers and, as a conclusion, offers some policy recommendations. The authors are drawn from NATO and Co-operating partner countries, from other parts of the world, and from international organisations. The focus of the book is on the institutional fram… More >>

Technology Transfer: From Invention to Innovation: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop

Much has been written on WMD terrorism, but few books present a systems approach to this problem. In this book, we present an integrated view of WMD terrorism. The threat section reviews several scenarios that a terrorist might use and a very comprehensive list of the possible biological organisms and compounds that can be used as biological, mid-spectrum, and chemical threats. In the science and technology section, the technical aspects of a successful defense against WMD agents are presented. Arguments are presented for the control of the release of scientific information to bolster CB defense. Approaches to biological agent detection and a system for ranking detection technologies are discussed next. The generic approach to biological screening and detection is then illustrated with some applications of generic detectors to water, food, and aerosol. The future of biological detection and identification is also presented, along with a call to perhaps change the paradigms that we are … More >>

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At the macroeconomic level innovation increasingly means the ability of institutions to cope with uncertainty and change. This change can be associated with technological advances, but also with modifications to the regulatory framework of an industry, shifts in consumer preferences, emerging demographic trends, or even major alternations of global geopolitics. The changes brought about by these conditions ripple throughout an economy, affecting national institutions and individual citizens alike. Innovation for All? considers the case of Portugal from the perspective of innovation theory, providing new insights on how knowledge is generated and diffused over time and across space. The lessons from Portugal’s experience can be applied more broadly to understand the challenges of developing policies that simultaneously promote scientific and technological innovation, societal creativity, and economic growth.At the macroeconomic level innovation increasingly means the ability of institut… More >>

Innovation for All?: Learning from the Portuguese Path to Technical Change and the Dynamics of Innovation

The Army1s Spring 1998 Technology Seminar Game was designed to advance theArmy After Next (AAN) process by bringing together military operators andcivilian scientists and technologists to examine future force developmentissues. It used 15 mini-scenarios extracted from previous AAN games. Foreach scenario, an overall mission and required force capabilities requiredto achieve that mission were identified beforehand. A set of System Cards,used in the game as a means of achieving the required capabilities, was alsopreselected. The cards included information about the specifications of aparticular system and the technologies that could be used to build thosesystems. System Cards were thus the fundamental component of the game,linking systems and technologies to the required force capabilities. Theplayers1 involvement included examining the preselected cards, revisingand/or adding new cards, and then cross-evaluating them with the intentionof identifying the most important critical technolog… More >>

Issues and Insights from the Army Technology Seminar Game

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IFIP Working Group 5.2 has organized a series of workshops extending the concept of intelligent CAD to the concept of “knowledge intensive engineering”. The concept advocates that intensive life-cycle knowledge regarding products and design processes must be incorporated in the center of the CAD architecture. It focuses on the systematization and sharing of knowledge across the life-cycle stages and organizational boundaries. From Knowledge Intensive CAD to Knowledge Intensive Engineering comprises the Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Knowledge Intensive CAD, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Parma, Italy in May 2000. This workshop looked at the evolution of knowledge intensive design for the product life cycle moving towards knowledge intensive engineering. The 18 selected papers present an overview of the state-of-the-art in knowledge intensive engineering, discussing theoretical aspects and also p… More >>

From Knowledge Intensive CAD to Knowledge Intensive Engineering

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Among the struggles of the twentieth century, the one between humans and mosquitoes may have been the most vexing. As vectors of diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, encephalitis, and dengue fever, mosquitoes forced open a new chapter in the history of medical entomology. Based on extensive use of primary sources, The Mosquito Crusades traces this saga and the parallel efforts of civic groups in New Jersey’s Meadowlands and along San Francisco Bay’s east side to manage the dangerous mosquito population…. More >>

The Mosquito Crusades: A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day

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