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A.
Introduction
Additional Resources
B. Technology,
Competitiveness and Challenges to Management
Technology
and competitiveness: The international environment and the basis
of advantage in a global economy
- Malecki, Chapter 1. Economic growth
and development; Chapter 9. Development in a competitive
world.
Additional Resources
- Stephen Cohen and John Zysman, Manufacturing Matters: The Myth of the
Post-Industrial Economy,
(a) "Linkages, Wealth, and Power," Ch. 2; (b)
"Market Competition, Technological Development, and
Trade," Ch. 7. [library reserve].
- For "historic" views: US
Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Making
Things Better,
Washington, DC 1990. [Library Reserve] [Also available in ACROBAT *PDF];
Technology and competitiveness: international environment
N. Bruce Hannay, "Technology and Trade: A Study of
U.S. Competiveness in Seven Industries," in Tushman
and Moore, pp. 670-685. [Library reserve]
- For a revised view: The Economist,
"Back on Top?", Survey of American Business,
September 16, 1995.
C. Processes of
Technological Innovation
Models of
technological innovation and development
- Malecki, Chapter 2. Technological
capability: the core of economic development; Chapter 3.
Innovation in the firm: technology in corporate context.
Additional resources
- Tushman and Moore, Chapter 1, esp.
Abernathy and Utterback, "Innovation over time and
in historical context," pp. 25-36 and "Mapping
the winds of creative destruction," pp. 55-78;
Donald Marquis, "The anatomy of successful
innovations," pp. 79-87. [Library reserve].
D. Technological Innovation
and Industrial Systems
1.
Linking research with industry
Additional Resources
2.
New high technology firms - the environment for entrepreneurial
innovation
- Malecki, Chapter 5. Entrepreneurs,
small firms and economic development
Additional Resources
- Florida
and Kenney, The
Break-Through Illusion, Chap 1 "The Breakthrough
Illusion," and Chap 2, "How We Lost the
Follow-Through" (library reserve). HC110.T4.F57
1990.
3. Innovation
and new industrial structures - the environment for collaborative
innovation
- Malecki, Chapter 6. Corporations
and networks of large firms; Chapter 4. Flexibility and
agglomeration
Additional resources
- Bennett Harrison, Lean and Mean,
Chapter 1, "Big Firms, Small Firms, Network
Firms," [library reserve]
- Frank Pyke, Industrial Development
through Small Firm Cooperation, International Labor
Organization, 1992, Chapter 1, "Some organization
principles for a dynamic small-firm industrial
sector," pp. 1-14 [Library reserve]
- Piore and Sable, The Second
Industrial Divide [library reserve]
4. Comparative
case: Japanese industry and technology strategies
- Tushman and Moore, Ken-ichi Imai,
et. al., "Managing the new product development
process: how Japanese companies learn and unlearn,"
pp. 533-561; or Nina Hatvany and Vladimir Pucki,
"Japanese management practices and
productivity," pp. 519-532. [Library reserve]
- Take a virtual tour of the Kanagawa Science Park.
Additional Resources
- Philip Shapira, "Modernizing
Small Manufacturers in Japan: The Role of Local Public
Technology Centers" Journal of Technology Transfer,
Winter 1992, 17,1 pp: 40-57. [ACROBAT *PDF]
- Daniel Okimoto, Between MITI and
Market: Japanese Industrial Policy for High Technology,
Stanford, CA: Sanford University Press, 1989 Chapter 3,
MITI and Industrial Organization (Library reserve).
- Web links
E. Technology Assessment
1.
Regulatory environment for technology management
- Richard Barke, Note on Types of Market Failures (1997). [Acrobat PDF]
2.
Environmental context for technology development: Sustainability
and technological systems
3. Financial
Environment for Developing New Technology Ventures.
Additional Resources
- Florida and Kenney, Chapter 4,
"Venture Capital and the Breakthrough Bias,"
(library reserve)
4. Institutional Context for Technology
Development: The Case of the Internet
- Juan Rogers, Internetworking
and the Politics of Science: NSFNET in Internet
history, 1997 (forthcoming in The Information Society) .
- The internet as a tool for technology transfer,
Technology Transfer, Gibson and Williams, eds, to be
posted.
Additional Resources
- Lee W. McKnight and Joseph P. Bailey, "An
Introduction to Internet Economics," The Journal
of Electronic Publishing, University of Michigan, Volume
2 (c. 1996). (See also other articles in this special
issue).
5. Forecasting innovations trends in a global context
F. Technology Management and
Public Policy
1. U.S.
Technology Policy:
Current Approaches and Emerging Frameworks
- Malicki, Chapter 7. Creating competitiveness in nations,
regions and localities.
- The Steering Committee of the Project on Technology
Policy Assessment Lewis Branscomb, Richard Florida, David
Hart, James Keller, and Darin Boville, Investing
in Innovation Toward A Consensus Strategy for Federal
Technology Policy. Center for Science, policy and
International Affairs, JFK School fo Government, harvard
University, April 1997.
Additional Resources
2. Innovation
to deployment: new U.S.
partnerships and international comparisons
- Philip Shapira, Manufacturing
Extension: Performance, Challenges, and Policy Issues. In: Investing in Innovation, edited by
L.M. Branscomb and Jim Keller, MIT Press, 1998.
- Philip Shapira and Stuart
Rosenfeld, An Overview of Technology Diffusion
Policies and Programs to Enhance the Technological
Absorptive Capabilities of Small and Medium Enterprises. Background paper prepared for the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,
Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, Paris,
1996.
Additional Resources
3. Networks, Social Capital, and
Technological Capability:
The Balance Between Collaboration and Competition
- Jane E.
Fountain, Social Capital: A
Key Enabler of Innovation, In: Investing in Innovation, edited by
L.M. Branscomb and Jim Keller, MIT Press, 1998.
- Doug Welch, Eric Oldsman, Philip Shapira,
Jan Youtie, and Julie Lee, Net benefits: An
assessment of a set of manufacturing business networks
and their impacts on member companies, USNet Evaluation
Working Paper 9701, October 1997. [In Acrobat and Word 97
formats]
Additional Resources
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