Title: From consortium to e-science: an evolutionary track of organising technology development

Authors: Junmo Kim

Addresses: Department of Public Administration, Konkuk University, Gwang-Jin-Gu, Hwa-Yang Dong 1, Seoul, 143-701 Korea

Abstract: Organising technology development is a salient issue for the academic circle as well as practitioners, with increasing trends of technology development taking a collective and cooperative nature. Taking this as a backdrop, this article compared three ways of organising technology development: consortium, network and E-science, in both theoretical and empirical cases. While not the only method which will be prevalent in the future, this research notes that there has been a trend toward e-science in technology-related research. E-science, as a newly emerging idea of organising technology development, has critical issues to be resolved in order to be widely utilised.

Keywords: consortium; e-science; networks; technology development; technology management; knowledge-intensive industries.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTM.2008.016785

International Journal of Technology Management, 2008 Vol.41 No.3/4, pp.291 - 310

Published online: 22 Jan 2008 *

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