| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Advisory Board and Track Coordinators | |
| Future Directions and Needs in the Management of Technology | p. 3 |
| Technology and Industrial Development: The Role of Unido as a Part of the Multilateral System | p. 23 |
| Virtual Organization: Attributes and Challenges | p. 31 |
| Multi-National Virtual Organization for Rapid Product Innovation | p. 45 |
| Information Technology and Supply Chain Innovation | p. 55 |
| Supply Chain Integration in the Automobile Industry: The Case of ANX | p. 71 |
| Accelerating New Product Development's Front End | p. 83 |
| Market versus Technology Drive in RandD Internationalization: Four Different Patterns of Managing Research and Development | p. 99 |
| Linking Shareholder Value to RandD Performance | p. 117 |
| Leading RandD Projects Without Formal Authority | p. 127 |
| Innovation in Joint Ventures: A Social Construction Theory | p. 135 |
| Collaborative Technological Innovation in Japanese Firms | p. 149 |
| Management of Strategic Technology Alliances: Conceptional Framework and Case Study | p. 157 |
| The Response of Old Technology Incumbents to Technological Competition: Does The Sailing Ship Effect Exist? | p. 175 |
| The Internationalisation of Technology Analysed with Patent Data | p. 195 |
| Assessing the Institutional Set-up of National Innovation Systems | p. 207 |
| Technology and Politics in China: Influences Upon the Process of Innovation in China | p. 223 |
| Soruces of Industrial Innovation in a Newly industrialized Country: A Microeconometric Analysis for Turkish Manufacturing Industries | p. 233 |
| The Dynamics of Innovation Financing: The Case of Sweden | p. 247 |
| Patterns of Strategic Change and Technological Learning in Korean Small and Medium Enterprises | p. 261 |
| Fast-Start Technology Roadmapping | p. 275 |
| Technology Assessment in the Manufacturing Enterprise: A Holistic Approach | p. 285 |
| The Challenging Search for Global Scenaros of the Internet Evolution | p. 295 |
| Optimising Product Value Chains | p. 305 |
| Procedures for Developing a Strategic Technological Plan for a Virtual Mexican Engineering SME: The Case of INCAM | p. 315 |
| Technology Transfer: The Importance of Accurate Information | p. 325 |
| Line Of Sight: A Process for Transfering Science from the Laboratory to the Market Place | p. 335 |
| Innovative Capability Audits of University Research Center | p. 343 |
| Evaluating the International Transfer of Technology | p. 353 |
| European Movement Towards a Competency-Based Skills Taxonomy and a Personal Skills Profile | p. 363 |
| Diversity, Culture and Technical Project Management | p. 373 |
| Managing Stress in Product Development Projects | p. 381 |
| Value Management: A Methodology to Lead the Change in a Training Organization | p. 397 |
| A New Framework for Strategic Project Management | p. 407 |
| Successful Control of Innovative Projects: An Empirical Study | p. 417 |
| Interface Between Project and Functional Managers in Matrix Organized New Product Development Projects | p. 427 |
| TRIZ-based Competitor Analysis | p. 443 |
| TRIZ: The Science of Systematic Innovation | p. 451 |
| Imitation - A Struggle Option of Technology Management | p. 459 |
| Thinking Organization | p. 469 |
| Capturing Knowledge within a Competence | p. 481 |
| On the Persistence of Technologies | p. 491 |
| Identifying Unique Information using Principal Component Decomposition | p. 503 |
| Author Index | p. 513 |
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