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The Role of NSF's Support of Engineering in Enabling Technological Innovation:Table of Contents
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The Role of NSF's Support of Engineering in Enabling Technological Innovation
CONTENTS
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- Study Objectives and Approach
- Conclusions
- Reaction Injection Molding
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- The Internet
I. INTRODUCTION TO THE CASES
- Purpose of the Study
- Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Conducting Retrospective
Case Studies
- Specific Research Tasks
- Decomposition
- Library Search
- Bibliometrics
- Institutional Analysis
- Patent Analysis
- Personal Interviews
- Phone Interviews
- References
II. REACTION INJECTION MOLDING
- Choosing the Focus of the Case
- Defining Reaction Injection Molding
- RIM Chemistry
- A RIM Chronology
- Technological Decomposition
- RIM Chemistry
- Metering
- Mixing
- Molding
- Demolding
- Relationships between Fundamental Research and Technology Development
in RIM
- The Role of NSF
- Conclusions
- Government, Industry, University Roles and Relationships
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Relationships between Fundamental Research and Technology
Development
- NSF Role
- References
- SRI Interviews
III. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
- Defining Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Elements of MRI Technology
- Magnet
- Gradient Coils
- RF Transmitter and Receiver
- Computer
- Display
- Spatial Encoding and Image Reconstruction Techniques
- A Brief History of NMR Spectroscopy
- A Brief History of Computed Tomography (CT) Scanning
- An MRI Chronology
- Technological Decomposition
- NMR Imaging and Its Application to Clinical Medicine
- Pulsed Fourier Transform Methods
- RF Coil Design
- Conclusions
- Government, Industry, University Roles and Relationships
- Relationships between Fundamental Research and Technology
Development
- Intellectual Property Rights
- NSF Role
- References
- SRI Interviews
IV. THE INTERNET
- Defining the Internet
- Internetworks
- Protocols
- Packet Switching
- Routers
- Browser Software
- Organizational and Managerial Factors
- An Internet Chronology
- Technological Decomposition
- Internetworking
- Protocols
- Packet Switching
- Routers
- Internet Browsers
- Organizational and Managerial Innovation
- Conclusions
- Government, Industry, University Roles and Relationships
- Relationships between Fundamental Research and Technology
Development
- Property Rights
- NSF Role
- References
- SRI Interviews
V. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS
- Observations on the Results
- Observations about Methodology
APPENDIX A INTERVIEW PROTOCOL
FOOTNOTES
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