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Technology Transfer: a Selected Reference List
by Jean A. Larson, Comm Sci Fellow
Office of Technology Commercialization, Technology Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce
June 1993
[Permission granted to reproduce electronically by OTC 4/95]
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
During the time period October 1, 1992 to June 30, 1993 I had the pleasure of being a Fellow in the Commerce Science and Technology (ComSci) Fellowship program. The ComSci program is an executive training program analogous to an academic sabbatical. Federal staff at management levels that have been nominated by their agencies for the 10 month program are allowed to leave the parent organization and work in another agency of choice. In my case, I spent most of my Fellowship at the Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) of the Department of Commerce. While at OTC, I have applied my information/library science skills to produce this bibliography on technology transfer for several reasons: (1) OTC gets many inquiries regarding the process on issues related to technology transfer and a bibliography will provide some of the information resources requested, (2) the Clinton Administration feels that technology transfer is critical to the U.S. economy, (3) a convient resource for recent information saves time for busy people, and (4) there does not apprear to be any recent, readily available bibliography on the topic.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
There are several people that I would like to thank for helping with this project:
Elizabeth Robertson helped identify some of the important documents that should be included in any respectable bibliography on technology transfer. She also provided encouragement for the project as I was getting acquainted with new colleagues and a new environment and a new subject area. Robert Carr, who also showed an early interest in the project, provided some of the referenced materials from his files. I am grateful to the other members of the Office of Technology Commercialization staff-- Regina Horton, Margaret Brown, Dick Mullens, Paul Braden, and Ted Lettes--who were welcoming and encouraging to this stranger in their midst. John Heizer was helpful in formating the document on the computer. I would especially like to thank Jon Paugh, Director, Office of Technology Commercialiczation. While acting as my supervisor, he approved, encouraged, and supported the project from beginning to end.
It has been an interesting and challenging project for me and I hope that the fruits of my labors help those attempting to promote and effect the process of technology transfer from the federal system to the private sector.
NOTES ON CONTENT AND STRUCTURE OF THE RESOURCE LISTING
The subject matter of technology transfer has been divided into several sections: background information on the topic; laws, policies, and programs; general information about the process and issues; cooperative programs that involve more than one organization; peacetime conversion of the military R&D; intellectual property; foreign investment; international technology transfer which has been subdivided into general topics, the Developing World, Europe and Pacific Rim countries; training of a high tech work force; and other information that seems relevant but doesn't fit nicely into the previously mentioned categories has been placed in the catch-all--miscellaneous.
In regard to the citations, various types of documents are referenced including books, reports, hearings acts, and articles. Abstracts have been provided for the articles. For those items where the ISSNs and ISBNs or other identification numbers are readily available, they are included. The U.S. publisher and/or distributor is referenced. In some citations some of the data elements in the citation are missing. In those cases I have included as much information as I could find, rather than leave the title out. Most documents have publications dates from 1987 to the present, but in some circumstances older materials, i.e. congressional hearings, have been included for their historical value.
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