Dealing with Asynchrony in Technology Transfer

Wiederhold, Gio

in P.Apers, M.Bouzeghoub, and G.Gardarin: Advances in Database Technology -- EDBT'95; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.1057, Springer Verlag 1996, pages 631-634. Paper (html).

A major problem discussed throughout industry and government is Technology Transition (TT). New computing concepts originate in industrial, governmental, and academic laboratories must to be disseminated and, if found effective, adopted. The receptors are industrial development, organizations devoted to improvement of existing, and enterprises doing systems integration. The use of computing is broad, an most of the receptors are not primarily focused on computing but have a broader palette. There are many problems that hinder technology transfer, this note focuses on the problem of temporal and terminological gaps. We believe that these gaps encompass a large and critical fraction of TT problems. We will deal here with innovations and developments that are beneficial and should be marketable at some point, and not with the issues of irrelevant research, nor with the filtering needed to determine relevancy.