Implementing New Technologies

Innovation and the Management of Technology

Rhodes, Ed / Wield, David (Editor)

2. Edition September 1994
484 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-631-17805-7

John Wiley & Sons

Technological change has had a profound impact on manufacturing
industry and related business sectors. Since publication of the
first edition of Implementing New Technologies the pace of
change ahs been maintained, often with uncertain consequences. In
this new edition the editors have brought together a collection of
readings which include:

* Project planning.

* Conversion or application of plans.

* Consolidation of change after the insertion of new
technologies.

* Although the second edition includes material on innovation it is
more concerned with the consequences of technology diffusion and
technology transfer, concentrating on the adoption of technologies
which are novel in a particular application even though not
inherently 'new'.

Preface.

Introduction: David Wield and Ed Rhodes.

Part I: A Core Problem Area.

Part II: The Innovation Environment.

Part III: Strategy and Innovation.

Part IV: The Interdependence of Technology and Organization.

Part V: Technology, Skills and Work Organization.

Part VI: Financing Innovation.

Part VII: The Dynamics of Project Organization.

Ed Rhodes and David Wield are both based in the Faculty of Technology of the Open University, where David Wield is Director of the Centre for Technology Strategy.

E. Rhodes, Open University; D. Wield, Open University