It is critical that technology recipients have the prerequisite knowledge and scientific base to best exploit the information. This includes domestic private and public research laboratories and universities, in addition to a sound basis of technical skills and human capital. Each of these may...

In this paper, referring to the Model for General Knowledge Management within the Enterprise (MGKME), we emphasize two of the operating elements of this model which are essential to ensure the organizational learning process that leads people to use appropriate concepts, methods and tools of...

This volume deals with the dynamics of science-based innovation. The transfer of the latest scientific results to commercial innovation is of ever more importance today. This implies that competitiveness in modern technologies is no more the responsibility of the manufacturing industry alone,...