Industrial Innovation Research Conference for the NSF Industrial Program ISPT (Intergovernmental Science and Public Technology), Proceedings Held at Seven Springs, PA., on April 23-25, 1979

摘要

The Grantees' Conference for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) program on Intergovernmental Science and Public Technology (ISPT) provided a forum for exchange of ideas and information among NSF staff, potential grantees and interested industrial, research, and university personnel. Special attention focused on innovation and entrepreneurship with respect to the distinguishing features which characterize situations in which these two aspects might be successful and processes which might help improve efforts at entrepreneurship. These discussions were coupled with progress reports on ISPT projects during the preceding five and a half years. These projects were discussed with respect to hypotheses, a test control group, and preliminary test results to generate new ideas and to illustrate for public policy makers the experimental methods of ISPT research programs. Topics covered the following: fusion; new technology development and infusion; governmental institutions and policy studies; government policy studies; industry-university coupling; and future areas of experimentation.