A STUDY OF LITERATURE ON THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS AND THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN FOSTERING SUCH COMMERCIALIZATION

摘要

This report represents the results of the first phase of a study being conducted for the Energy Research and Development Administration to analyze the factors affecting the commercialization of new tech-nologies, and to recommend actions which ERDA can take to accelerate the introduction and diffusion of new energy technologies into the marketplace. This report is essentially a literature search and was conducted for two reasons:nTo identify generic conditions which must be met to achieve successful commercialization—Documentation of existing literature on commercialization conditions should help provide insights regarding actions available to ERDA over the next ten to twenty years to accelerate the commercialization of new energy technologies. In particular an effort was made to summarize previously conducted case studies (rather than conduct historical case studies as originally planned) in order to illustrate the influence of these generic conditions on the causes of commercialization of past innovations.