Managing the flow of technology: technology transfer and the dissemination of technological information within the R and D organization

Book · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1977

OSTI ID:7100210

Allen, T J

The end product of a decade of empirical study into communication behavior among technologists, this book gives a comprehensive view of the management of technical information. It attempts a unifying, systemic approach, unlike its predecessors in the field in which findings were not integrated into a more-complete presentation of the communication process in science or technology. Most important, the study shows how human and organizational systems can be restructured in order to bring about better person-to-person contact. Professor Allen offers models to describe organization and communication and to predict the relationships among the variables. Chapter 1 introduces a distinction between the scientist and the technologist, whose differences in orientation have profound implications. Chapter 2 describes the research on which the book is based. Chapter 3 is an overview of the communication system in technology. Chapter 4 discusses the acquisition of technological information by the research and development organization. After the discussion in Chapter 5 of the need to promote communication and how it can be met, Chapter 6 returns to the topic of information acquisition and expands on it. Chapters 7 to 9 talk about how an organization's structure, and even its architecture and office layout, affect information dissemination. Chapter 10 offers a conclusion.

• OSTI ID: 7100210
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
COMMUNICATIONS
BEHAVIOR
DATA ACQUISITION
ENERGY MODELS
290500* - Energy Planning & Policy- Research
Development
Demonstration
& Commercialization
990300 - Information Handling