DocumentCode
349692
Title
Technology policy staff in R and D management to overcome increased complexities and speed in information industries-a policy science approach
Author
Haruna, Koichi
Author_Institution
Res. & Dev. Group, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Volume
1
fYear
1999
fDate
1999
Firstpage
1031
Abstract
In order to cope with the rapidly changing interplay between technology and the market in the information industries, particularly in industrial R&D activities, a persistent and goal-clarifying interplay among the participants for the purposes of problem anticipation, mobilization of motives and knowledge, and fast, realistic actions must be led by policy scientists (technology policy staff) as a policy process. This paper shows, based on the author´s own experiments, that with emerging digital media-enabled innovations, H.D. Lasswell´s (1971) concept of policy science and its process can be applied to the problem of technology innovation, if a behavioral sciences viewpoint on technology policy staff is taken into consideration appropriately in terms of structure and power. The results of a couple of experiments in real-world problems were quite appreciable, and the consequence is emerging discussions for more general adoption of technology policy staff
Keywords
behavioural sciences; information industry; management science; personnel; research and development management; R&D management; behavioral science; digital media-enabled innovations; industrial R&D activities; information industries; knowledge; market; motives; policy science; power; problem anticipation; technology innovation; technology policy staff; Appropriate technology; Conference management; Industrial relations; Innovation management; Public policy; Research and development; Research and development management; Technological innovation; Technology management; Uncertainty;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Tokyo
ISSN
1062-922X
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5731-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICSMC.1999.814235
Filename
814235
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