The Key to Prosperity in the Third Millennium Book

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