Innovation, Economic Change and Technology Policies: by V. Hauff (auth.), Karl A. Stroetmann (eds.)

By V. Hauff (auth.), Karl A. Stroetmann (eds.)

Technological growth is a significant component chaping financial progress. latest lifestyle is an immediate results of medical advances and technical switch long ago. given that out of control technological growth has develop into amenace to our good­ being and should really risk our survival, it's important to benefit to regulate technological growth and direct cutting edge actions in this sort of demeanour that either inner most desires and social wishes playa dominant position in making a choice on the speed and course of technical swap. This calls for a greater figuring out of the procedures of technical switch, in their impression on and interrelationships with fiscal and social advancements and of the capacity and measures during which either contributors and governments can impact and direct technological development. To this finish, the Ninistry for study and expertise of the Federal Republ ic of Germany and the nationwide technological know-how starting place of the Uni ted States of the United States invited a gaggle of students, company managers and civil servants to a one week seminar on "Technolo­ gical Innovation". The seminar happened in April, 1976, in Bonn, Federal Republ ic of Germany. so much papers provided at this assembly have been in particular ready for the seminar. With this quantity, they're made on hand to a bigger viewers to additional stimulate dialogue not just between students drawn to innovation examine and expertise coverage questions but additionally between managers, union officers, civil ser­ vants and others at once or in some way fascinated about and laid low with technical change.

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3) External Communications R&D Strength.

These are as follows: Characteristics of managers:In the instrument industry the experience, commitment and responsibility of the business innovator distinguished in favour of success. In chemicals power,status, respons i bil ity, experience and length of service distinguish. (In the instruments successes, the business innovator had usually spent less time with the firm than his counterpart who failed). The presence of a technical innovator and a product champion is important to success in instruments, but not in chemicals.

Introducti on After the rate of technological progress for the overall economy of the USA had been calculated for the first time by Solow1) in 1957 on the basis of a neoclassical production function, similar calculations followed in quick succession for other countries and soon even calculations were made relating to individual sectors of industry2~. It became quite clear that no automatism exists which ensures technological progress and thereby economic growth. Technological progress just does not come like "manna from heaven".

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