Beyond the technology lists: tracking advanced optics and other critical technologies

Ernest Sternberg

doi:10.1117/12.58904

12 May 1992 Beyond the technology lists: tracking advanced optics and other critical technologies

Ernest Sternberg

Proceedings Volume 1617, International Competitiveness and Business Techniques in Advanced Optics and Imaging; (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.58904
Event: Optics Rochester: SPIE's International Symposium on Imaging, Fabrication, and Competitiveness, 1991, Rochester, NY, United States

Abstract

The United States and other governments have increasingly engaged in technology-specific policies toward fields like advanced optics. But the data for making such decisions wisely is not available. Product data, R&D expenditure data, patent data, citation analyses, the industrial census, and technology lists all have serious shortcomings for tracking technical fields like optics. Better information should be obtained through more rigorous data collection on R&D activities and through a series of technology forecasts.

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Ernest Sternberg "Beyond the technology lists: tracking advanced optics and other critical technologies", Proc. SPIE 1617, International Competitiveness and Business Techniques in Advanced Optics and Imaging, (12 May 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.58904

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