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Managing technological knowledge transfer: Proceedings from COST A3 workshop in Milan, Italy, February 1-2, 1996 - Volume 4
Research policy and organisation
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European Commission
SOCIAL SCIENCES
MANAGING TECHNOLOGICAL
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
Proceedings from COST A3 workshop in Milan, Italy
February 1-2, 1996
Edited by Sergio CampodallOrto
EC
Directorate General
Science, Reasearch and Development
1997 MANAGING TECHNOLOGICAL
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
Proceedings from COST A3 workshop in Milan, Italy
February 1 - 2, 1996
Edited by Sergio CampodallOrto A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet.
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Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1997
ISBN 92-827-9208-0
© European Communities, 1997
Reproduction is authorized, except for commercial purposes, provided the source is
acknowledged
Printed in Belgium Printed on white chlorine-free paper Foreword ρ VII
Introduction
S. CampodallOrto - Β. Ghiglione
The process of technology transfer within the
new innovation models ρ XV
Keynote Speeches
H. Etzkowitz
The Triple Helix: academy-industry-government
relations and the growth of neo-corporatist
industrial policy in the U.S.
M. Marinazzo
Science parks and local technology infrastructures:
demand-driven approaches from SMEs' point of
view Ρ 27
J. Senker
Overcoming Barriers to technology transfer in Small
and Medium Sized Firms ρ 28
A. Webster
Academic-Industry collaboration and the Wider
Knowledge System ρ 43
SESSION 1
Collaboration among Universities and Firms
G. Azzone - P. Maccarone
Technology transfer patterns and the role of
flexible infrastructures Ρ 57
K. Balàzs
ρ 74 Small firms at university, emerging from crisis I. Gorges
Knowledge transfer between university
and industry and the role of public
intervention, an international comparison p 102
D. Maclean - A. Francis
The development of high-tech industries:
optoelectronics in Scotland p 126
J.H. Vaux - M.P.S.F. Gomes - R.J. Grieve
- J-N. Ezingeard - P. Race - -S.W. Woolgar
SME perceptions as a constraint on accessing
university research and expertise 151
SESSION 2
Science Parks and Technological Services to SMEs
S. Conway - F. Steward
Building Networks for Cross-Border
Technology Diffusion p 171
P. Escorsa - J. Valls
A proposal for a typology for science
and technology parks 197
SESSION 3
Technology Transfer and Firm Management
V. Chiesa - R. Manzini
Managing knowledge transfer within
multinational firms ρ 221
T. Laamanen - E. Autio
Development a fid application of (he concept
of dominant dynamic complementarities on the
acquisition of small, technology-based
companies by established industrial companies ρ 236
Κ. Lapid
Firm management and organizational learning
of technology ρ 263 M. Lindell - C. von Bonsdorff
Acquisition and competence transfer
between R&D departments p 290
A.H. Molina
The transfer of an Emerging Technology
into a High-Tech environment:
The Perspective of Sociotechnical Alignment p 309
M.I. Ugalde
Organizational innovations in the
evolutionary firm p 332
Authors 349 FOREWORD
This collection contains some of the papers presented at the
workshop: Managing Technological Knowledge Transfer organised
by Fondazione Rosselli and held under the auspices of the COST A3
Action at Politecnico di Milano (Italy), February 1-2 1996. This was
the eleventh workshop of COSTA3 A3 since it was initiated in 1991.
COST (European Cooperation and Coordination in the Field of
Scientific and Technical Research) A3 for "Management and new
Technology has provided an opportunity to exchange ideas and
research experiences in five major areas: networks, information
technologies, strategic management of technology, technology transfer
and technological design as a process. COST A3 aims to create a
network of researchers from several disciplines concerned with the
management and new technology, such as management, social sciences
and economics.
Fondazione Rosselli, the organiser of the Workshop, is a non
profit foundation whose aim is to develop basic and applied social
research, with a special focus on European public policies.
The Foundation cooperates with Italian and European public
and private institutions in order to carry out studies or to organise
seminars focused on: industry and technological innovations, public
services and social policies, economic and social research models,
institutions and public administration, research and education.
It was only possible to disseminate a selection of the papers
presented and discussed in the Milan workshop in the proceedings.
However I would like to thank all the participants for their important
contribution to the discussion on technology transfer during the
workshop.
A discussion of the most important innovation and R&D
models affecting the technology transfer process, by CampodallOrto
and Ghiglione, introduces the papers published in this volume.
At the Milan workshop the issue of technological knowledge
transfer was first of all approached through deepening the study of the
relationships between universities and firms and in particular analysing
how it is possible to encourage information exchanges among
VII businesses as well as pairing university research and the firms'
requests.
Some of the issues of this research field are related to the need
to co-ordinate the efforts to create a professional training and
discipline whose aim is to understand and to turn the transfer of
technological knowledge through networks to better use, expecially
through the cooperation between research and industry and the optimal
public intervention (at a national and community level) in order to
promote this objective.
The first topic, collaboration among universities and firms,
was introduced by a keynote speech from Andrew Webster. In his
view it is crucial to take into account both the fact that knowledge has
become the leading dimension in the production process and that
academia and industry today need to be located in a wider innovation
context. This context has been variously described as one involving a
co-evolution of institutional and technological structures, a new
knowledge production system and one that can be regarded as a form
of triple-helix as the interests of academia, industry and government
converge to form new structures of innovation, capable of efffectiively
utilzing the new sciences that have emerged.
Henry Etzkowitz, second keynote speaker at the Milan
Workshop, analysed the concept and developments of the triple helix
through an enquiry into the role of government with respect to
academia and industry. According to Etzkowitz, the triple helix of
academic-industry-government relations is affecting the internal
structure of each institutional sphere as well as the relationships among
them. With reference to the case of the United States Etzkowitz
connected the new triple helix relations between academy-industry-
government to the neo-corporatist planning system under development
through the creation of federal technology programs. Reasons for the
emergence ofm can be found in the legitimation of the
entry of the state into a previously forbidden area of activity
The range of the papers on collaboration among universities and
firms can be grouped into 3 broad types: 1) those focusing on regions,
networking and the bases for successful firm formation and innovation,
2) technology transfer in central and eastern Europe, 3) organisational
and cultural dynamics within firms which may act as barriers to
technology transfer.
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