An Assessment of Science and Technology Parks

Excerpt from An Assessment of Science and Technology Parks: Towards a Better Understanding of Their Role in the Emergence of New Technologies Technology has acquired its proper place in the arena of strategic variables and is nowadays considered to be one of the principal drivers of competition: Technological change is the great equalizer, eroding the competitive advantage of even well-entrenched firms and propelling others to the forefront. (porter, As a consequence, technological innovation should be approached as a corporate-wide task, beyond the realm of r&d-management (rothwell 1977 Recognition of the strategic importance of technology in the modern corporation not only leads to an emphasis on effective intracompany cooperations and communications. Boundaries between the organization and its environment are also fading. Finding the proper balance between cooperation and competition, between internal versus external technology development, has become an important issue (friar and Horwitch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.