From Invention to Innovation: Technology Transfer and the British Technology Group
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1 September 2000 - 31 August 2000
This project addressed the perceived post-war failure of UK industry to exploit indigenous inventions through a comparative study of innovation by firms in the UK, Germany, Japan and the USA.
The methodological focus for this study was to track the exploitation of inventions patented and licensed by the British Technology Group (and its predecessors, the National Research Development Corporation). These case studies of innovation encompassed two, inter-related, levels of analysis: at the micro-level of firm behaviour, the processes of technology transfer and the translation of inventions into commercial products; at the macro-level, the role of structural factors such as national systems of innovation and financial investment regimes.
Researchers: Dr Graham Spinardi; Dr Wendy Faulkner; Prof Donald MacKenzie; Prof Robin Williams
Contact: Dr Graham Spinardi