Product Description: The move toward sustainable energy production and use is one the most challenging and profound changes currently taking place in the world’s established and emerging economies. Energy and Innovation: Structural Change and Policy Implications presents a series of informative case studies from Norway, the United Kingdom, Poland, the United States, Russia, Japan, and China that demonstrate how the pace of sustainable energy production differs by country...read more

Essays examine the new knowledge-based economy, discussing regional economic development, policies regarding technology and innovation, and corporate strategies for the changing economy.

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Product Description: Despite the unprecedented development and growth of knowledge during the 20th century, the evolution of a peaceful 21st century will depend on our ability to address the challenges of prosperity, sustainability, and security. From these challenges, this collection seeks to devise a research agenda to help us to understand better the knowledge-based economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Shaken by the dramatic inroads made by Japanese competitors into high-tech electronics, a number of U.S. electronic firms joined forces in 1982 to form the first U.S. for-profit research consortium: MCC (Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp...read more

Product Description: Spurred on by the increasing international competition, the rising cost of advanced research, the need to leverage scarce scientific and technical talent, and the desire to share the risk associated with technology generation and commercialization, technology companies are banding together in research and development consortia and innovative strategic alliances...read more

Product Description: Economic policymakers throughout the world are looking increasingly toward technology-related business activities to encourage economic growth. In Technology Companies and Global Markets, 39 leading experts-from academia, business, and government-representing 15 nations consider diverse topics on the foremost edge of technology generation, transfer, and diffusion...read more

Product Description: University-based research is increasingly leading to business opportunities beyond academia. Notable examples include Hewlett Packard from Stanford University and Digital Equipment Corp. from MIT. This volume explores this emerging phenomenon in order to offer an efficient solution to the problem of launching academic ventures...read more

Technology Transfer brings together for the first time research from group, organizational, media and interpersonal communication perspectives. The central topics considered include: } identification and definition of technology transfer } organization to enhance technology transfer } the roles of universities, government and industry in the technology transfer environment } the distinctive elements of the communication process in technology transfer