Promoting Exploitation of University Research by SMEs: On Evaluating Technology Dissemination on the World Wide Web

Industry and Higher Education

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-27

  Gomes, M P S F ^a   Vaux, J H ^a   Ezingeard, J N ^a   Grieve, R J ^a   Race, P ^a   Woolgar, S W ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0007597072     PISSN: 09504222     EISSN: 20436858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/095042229701100104     Document Type: Article

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1. Recent sociology of technological systems provides a number of potentially apt analytic concepts for exploring these interchanges. For example, the idea of the ‘configured user’ maybe used to emphasize the expectations that the Web places on its users (see Woolgar S.W., ‘Configuring the user’, in Law J., ed, A Sociology of Monsters: Essays on Power, Technology and Domination, Routledge, London, 1991, pp 57–99); and the idea of ‘action at a distance’ maybe used to explore the relationship between the differing perceptions of designers, technology and users (see Latour B., Science in Action, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987).
2. For example, Realising Our Potential — A Strategy for Science, Engineering and Technology, HMSO, London, 1993.
3. Competitiveness, HMSO, London, 1995.
4. See Vaux J.H., ‘SME perceptions as a constraint on accessing university research and expertise’, paper presented at ‘Managing Technological Knowledge Transfer — International Research Workshop’, Milan, pp. 1–2 February 1996.
5. With the exception of Co 12, which stated that a network would be installed the following year.
6. Even if, in this case, it is an unfair criticism.
7. ‘Govemment roadshow will boost superhighway’, Sunday Times, 11 February 1996. Information on the UK government's Information Society Initiative can be found in http://www.isi.gov.uk/.
8. The Brunel/JRA Technology Bank can be found at http://www.brunel.ac.uk/technology-bank.
9. The Web provides essentially text and graphics, rather than sound and animation. However, these developments should be available soon.