Technology & Innovation Management: - PICMET Conference

PAPERS AND PANELS
changing processes. The major challenge in introducing any change
successfully depends on the success of accomplishing behavioral
change.
TC-02 Tuesday, July 27, 1999
13:30 - 15:00 Galleria-2
R&D Management - 4
Chair: Gil Latz, Portland State University
TC-02.1 - Management of Research and Technological Innovation
Philip Gardner, University of British Columbia
Vijay Verma, TRIUMF
Research and development management is the art of organising and
motivating a team of scientists, engineers and manufacturers, and
dealing effectively with uncertainties. Effective leadership is the key
to successful management of R&D programs. This paper provides an
overview of leadership challenges encountered in several research
projects involving innovative technologies at TRIUMF - Canada’s
national sub-atomic physics research facility.
TC-02.2 - Proposal of “Culturability” As An Index of R&D Management
Takuro Munezawa, Niigata University
Culture has been defined as the whole lifestyle built by new
knowledge and technology. Sony’s Walkman has realized the new
world-wide culture of walking while listening to individual stereos.
Seeing these phenomenon, I propose “culturability” as a new
product, meaning the potential of the new product to build a new
culture as one of indices of R&D Management, which I proposed
in PICMET ’97.
TC-02.3 - A Corporate Technology Stock Model - Financially
Sustainable Research and Technology Development
Akio Kameoka, Toshiba Corporation
Sei-ichi Takayanagi, Toshiba Corporation
A Corporate Technology Stock (CTS) model based on “depreciation”
and its numerical simulations have suggested providing a new
methodology for effective corporate technology management. This
paper proposes a consistent CTS model that covers financially sustainable
Research and Technology Development (RTD) in a company,
from the viewpoint of cyclic profit return for re-investments.
TC-02.4 - Juglar Cycles and Their Effects on Technological Changes
Masatami Iwamoto, Kagawa University
Chuzo Iwamoto, Hiroshima University
Tadatoshi Yamada, Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
“Juglar cycles” affect changes of R&D at intervals of 10 years in
Japan. There have been five recurring cycles in the last half-century
since World War II. We are presently at the beginning of the sixth
cycle. Based on their periodicity, this paper discusses R&D management
for the coming decade.
TC-03 Tuesday, July 27, 1999
13:30 - 15:00 Galleria-3
Management of Technological Innovation 5
Chair: Terry R Schumacher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
TC-03.1 - Science Based Accelerated Technological Innovation
Ruzica Petkovic, Exxon Research & Engineering Company
John Dismukes, University of Toledo
L. Cohen, Exxon Research and Engineering Company
Driven by the business need for the efficient movement of gas to
market, a new science-based technological innovation, advanced
linepipe technology, is under advanced development at Exxon. By
providing access to gas resources that are relatively remote from the
markets, this technology can be instrumental in the development of
reserves that would otherwise be considered uneconomic. This
paper provides a complete description of the complex system used
to bring science concepts to commercial reality for the first time.
Each element of the system, starting with identification of the need
to the successful achievement of the challenging task, is discussed
separately and together as an integrated system.
TC-03.2 - The Speed and Acceleration of Technological Innovation:
A Co-opetitive Dynamics Perspective of the Small Satellites Industry
Elias Carayannis, The George Washington University
Robie Samanta Roy, Institute for Defense Analysis
Jeffrey Alexander, Washington CORE
We develop a conceptual outline of the nature, structure, and
dynamics of technological innovation, and especially its speed and
acceleration. We then link our outline to empirical evidence in the
small satellite manufacturing sector in the US and abroad, focusing
on factors affecting technology development and commercialization
by small firms.
TC-03.3 - Simulation Training for Innovation Champions
Terry Schumacher, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Encouraging innovative practice in mature, stable, change-resisting
organizations is a topic of interest. Champions are especially important
in mature organizations because routines are well-established
and there is considerable resistance to innovation due to its routinedisrupting
nature. The simulation described here provides training
in the champion role.
TC-04 Tuesday, July 27, 1999
13:30 - 15:00 Parlor B
Technology Transfer - 2
Chair: Richard F Deckro, Air Force Institute of Technology
TC-04.1 - Measures of Knowledge and Their Relevance to
Technology Transfer
Meir Russ, Franklin University, MBA
Robert Fineman, Q Squared Knowledge Management, Inc.
Technology Transfer is defined as the transfer of knowledge, to
include the “transformation” of knowledge into viable commodities
that create value in the marketplace. Recently, learning or knowledge
acquisition was identified as possibly the sole source for sustainable
competitive advantage in the market place. Researchers have generally
failed to identify the key direct measures of knowledge in this
context. This case study is used to illustrate a framework to measure
the knowledge.
TC-04.2 - IT-Enabled International Market Research for Technology
Transfer: A New Paradigm
Nazmun Nahar, University of Jyvaskyla
Kalle Lyytinen, University of Jyvaskyla
Najmul Huda, Tallinn Technical University
By utilizing technology through international technology transfer,
companies can internationalize successfully. International market
research for technology transfer is very time-consuming and expensive
when using conventional approaches. This study presents a
methodology that facilitates the selection of appropriate markets and
suitable technology recipients from around the world by cost efficiently
using new information technologies.
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