Government Policy and Programme Impacts on Technology Development, Transfer and Commercialisation

出版者:Haworth Pr Inc

作者:Marshall, Kimball P. (EDT)/ Piper, William Sanford (EDT)/ Wymer, Walter W. (EDT)

页数:341

出版时间:2005-9

价格:$ 140.12

装帧:HRD

isbn号码:9780789026057

具体描述

In recent decades, government-funded technologies have produced radar, microwave ovens, modern cell phone systems, the Internet, new materials for aircraft and motor vehicles, and new medical instrumentation.

This first-of-its-kind book examines how access to technology is affected by government policies and government-sponsored programs.Government Policy and Program Impacts on Technology Development, Transfer, and Commercialization: International Perspectives provides an easy-to-read overview of the field and several studies serving as examples to guide government policymakers and private sector decision makers. This forward-looking book also forecasts the potential impacts of government regulation upon the field and presents provocative discussions of the ethical implications of the cross-cultural and cross-national challenges facing technologically developed nations in the global economy.This book reviews this broad field by first providing an overview of the goals of government technology policies and programs as well as of generic types of government technology programs. Next, it presents carefully selected studies that illustrate the potential impacts of government decisions upon marketing constraints, industry acceptance of regulatory requirements, economic development, gross domestic product, and the choices firms make when it comes to location, competitiveness, product development, and other factors. The final chapters explore ethical considerations from a global perspective. These chapters also explore the implications of these considerations in relation to the success of governmental and private sector technology transfer and commercialization programs. The macromarketing perspective taken by the contributors serves to ground the impacts of government technology policies and programs in practical implications for economic development, business productivity, and quality of life. The contributors to this unique collection share their expertise on government sponsorship of technology research, the impact of government regulation upon technology marketing and economic development, the effects of government policies on business practices, intellectual property rights, and much more.Government Policy and Program Impacts on Technology Development, Transfer, and Commercialization shows how evolving technology and government policy changes have affected: the commercialization of music--new media, piracy problems, consumer choices and costs, and changes in the radio and concert promotion industries the adoption of new household technology licensure requirements for telemedicine--with an essential overview of telemedicine plus examinations of relevant governmental regulations and potential applications patents, copyrights, trademarks, licensing, and proprietary information scrap tire disposal--new alternatives for a chronic waste disposal problem food product development state-owned enterprises--with a case study illustrating how a stagnant state-owned company quickly evolved into China's leading firm in the textile machinery field

用户评价

这本书的叙事风格非常独特，它不像一本枯燥的政策手册，反而更像是一部关于科技官僚与市场巨头之间“权力游戏”的编年史。作者善于将宏观的政策框架，通过一个个鲜活的行业案例串联起来，使得抽象的理论变得触手可及。我印象最深的是其中关于知识产权保护在跨国技术转让中的作用分析，它详细阐述了不同司法管辖区下，技术持有者和接受者之间的信任成本是如何被政策工具所影响的。每一次政策的调整，都像是在棋盘上移动了一枚关键的棋子，决定了谁能获得先发优势。读完后，我不再只是将技术进步视为线性发展，而是将其视为一个充满摩擦、博弈和适应性的动态系统。

这本书的价值在于，它将原本分散在经济学、管理学和公共政策领域的探讨，整合进了一个统一的分析框架中。它让我明白了，一个国家的科技竞争力，绝不仅仅取决于实验室里发现了多少新东西，而是取决于它如何设计一套有效的机制，将这些新发现高效、公平地转化为全社会的经济效益。作者在对比了几个不同发展阶段国家的政策路径差异时，采取了一种近乎人类学的考察方式，细致入微地捕捉了文化和制度背景对政策效力的塑造。这种跨学科的整合能力，使得这本书超越了单纯的学术著作，成为了一份对现代创新治理的深度诊断报告。它让人警醒，政策的滞后性，往往是技术进步的最大瓶颈。

阅读这本书的过程，就像是进行了一场关于现代经济驱动力的深度解剖。我原本对“技术商业化”的理解相对肤浅，认为只要技术成熟了，市场自然会接纳。然而，这本书以扎实的实证研究为基础，揭示了政府在搭建市场与技术之间的“桥梁”时所承担的关键角色。书中对一系列大型国家级技术推广计划的绩效评估，分析得入木三分，它没有回避政策实施中的失败案例，反而着重探讨了为什么某些旨在促进技术扩散的“好心”项目最终会陷入低效的泥潭。这种对成功与失败的辩证分析，让人在赞叹技术力量的同时，也对公共资源的有效配置有了更深刻的敬畏之心。它让我开始反思，我们口中的“创新生态系统”，究竟有多少成分是自然生长，又有多少是被精心设计的制度框架所支撑的。

这是一本关于政府政策、项目如何塑造技术发展的书籍，读完之后，我感觉自己的视野被极大地拓宽了。作者并没有停留在对政策的简单描述上，而是深入剖析了从技术萌芽到最终商业化的每一个环节中，政策干预是如何扮演“催化剂”或“阻碍者”角色的。比如，书中对不同时期R&D税收减免政策的案例分析，让我看到了政策的“细微之处”对企业创新决策的巨大影响。原以为技术进步是纯粹市场驱动的，但这本书让我意识到，一个看似微小的监管变化，可能直接决定一个新兴产业的生死存亡。尤其值得称赞的是，作者对技术转移过程的描述，它不仅仅是技术文档的简单交付，而是充满了知识产权、人才流动和文化适应的复杂博弈。

对于希望理解技术发展背后“看不见的手”的读者来说，这本书提供了无可替代的深度视角。它清晰地勾勒出政府干预的几个核心维度：从早期的基础研究资助，到中期的示范项目推广，再到后期的市场准入监管。我发现，书中对“技术成熟度曲线”（TRL）与不同阶段政策工具匹配性的探讨尤其精妙。很多时候，我们在技术发展的早期阶段就期望看到商业回报，而政策制定者如果不能理解技术研发的非线性本质，很容易做出拔苗助长的决策。这本书提醒我们，对技术的支持必须是全生命周期的，而且必须是具有前瞻性的，否则，即使是投入了巨额资金，也可能只是在错误的时间点上错过了最佳的干预窗口。