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New Wealth Commercialization of Science and Technology for Business and Economic Development
George Kozmetsky, Frederick illiams, Victoria illiams
ISBN: 1-56720-631-X
ISBN-13: 978-1-56720-631-9
224 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2004
List Price: $65.00 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Drawing from more than 25 years of research and project development, the authors describe how accelerated commercialization strategies building on advances in science and technology offer a sustainable source of wealth. They show how collaboration among business, government, entrepreneurial, and academic partners—all focusing to leverage local resources to compete in the global marketplace—is an established and powerful strategy for 21st century business creation and economic development.

This collaborative success strategy of thinking globally and acting locally, along with supportive activities such as technology incubators, research methods, entrepreneurship training, and use of networks for resource sharing is what has come to be called the Technopolis paradigm. Because a maturing Technopolis evolves as an integral component of a city, state, or larger sociopolitical unit, it promotes attention to sustainability and quality of life. Further, Kozmetsky and Williams consider the Technopolis paradigm as a process of constructive capitalism in that it utilizes private or corporate commercialization of science and technology to create wealth and shared prosperity, the value of which is set by competition in a free market.
Table of Contents:
  • Science and Technology as the New Prosperity
    Technology as a Wealth Concept
    Today's Wealth of Nations
    Technology-Based Enterprise Creation
    Think Globally, Act Locally
    Managing in Fast Company
    Fast Companies and Zero Time
    Progress in Networks and Networking
    Learning Amidst, For, and Using Technology
    Creating the Technopolis
    Adoption of Innovations
    Technology Transfer
    Designing Industrial Parks and Incubators
    Why an Enterprise Center?
    Advances in Management Science
    Power Tools for Applied Research
    Decision Science and Risk Analysis
    Revitalizations
    Austin Model: A City Reinvents Itself
    Project CBIRD: Bi-National Wealth Creation
    Project CARIBE: Prosperity in Paradise
    Anzoategui: A Venezuelan State of Change
    En Cuba: Biotech, Education and Health Services
    Prosperity Sharing
    Toward Capitalism with Conscience
    Afterglow
    Appendixes
    Bibliography
    Glossary
    About the Authors
About the Author: GEORGE KOZMETSKY was co-founder of the Teledyne Corporation, former Dean of the University of Texas College of Business, founder and Chairman of the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas, Austin. In addition, at the University of Texas he also was Murray S. Walker Chair Professor and E. D. Walker Centennial Fellow. In 1993 Dr. Kozmetsky received the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton.

FREDERICK WILLIAMS is a social scientist specializing in the economics of information technologies and author of more than 50 books. He was founding Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of California. At the University of Texas, Austin, he has occupied the Mary Gibbs Jones Chair in Communication and continues to serve as the W. W. Heath Centennial Fellow in the IC2 Institute.

VICTORIA WILLIAMS is Executive Director of The Williams Group and co-Director of the IC2 Institute Project Caribe at the University of Texas, Austin.
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