Large-scale installations as focal points for innovation networks Online publication date: Sat, 23-May-2009
by Marco Malacarne
International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM), Vol. 10, No. 4/5/6, 1995
Abstract: Large-scale installations play an important role in the interaction between basic research and industry in Europe, because of the technological complexity and multidisciplinarity that they have introduced in the world of basic research itself. Large installations have a significant capability to meet their own technological problems with the skills of their own scientific staff. The need to focus on the specific scientific tasks for which installations are created, though, acts as a strong disincentive to pursue hi-tech innovations per se and to further exploit them. The relatively weak institutional links with the industrial world, moreover, make it even harder for large installations to diffuse their own technological know-how. Nonetheless, large installations can act as catalysts for technological innovation and can directly contribute to it. The article also reviews some Community actions to improve the economic evaluation of the technological potential of large installations and to facilitate their use by European researchers.
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