We wish to thank Catherine Ailes, Director of the SRI Science and Technology Policy Office, for her suggestions, guidance, and administrative leadership during the course of the study.

We are deeply grateful to the people whom we interviewed, who shared their knowledge and insights with us. Their names and affiliations are listed below. We especially appreciate the criticisms and suggestions of the following people, who took the time to review our draft cases and provide corrective and supplementary information: Morton Schwartz, John Whinnery, David Hughes, Don Pederson, Melvin Breuer, Jim Mikulski, Jeff Hecht, Phil Porter, Al Michaelsen, and Don Keck. Errors of fact or interpretation that remain are entirely our responsibility.

Special thanks to Linda Parker, technically our project monitor but in practice our colleague, who assisted us in many ways and advised us wisely throughout the course of the study.

We acknowledge the financial support of NSF and its institutional wisdom for agreeing to support an extensive, retrospective study of processes of technological innovation. Of course, the conclusions reached and interpretations offered in this report are ours alone and do not reflect the views or official position of the Foundation.

Finally, our thanks to members of our Technical Review Panel, whose continuing interest, support, and constructive criticism have greatly strengthened the study.
 

Persons interviewed for the study:
 

Optical Fiber Case:

Peter Schultz, President, Heraeus Amersil Inc.

Donald B. Keck, Corning Incorporated

Alfred L. Michaelsen. Corning Incorporated

Elias Schutzman, Silver Spring, MD

Frederic Quan, Corning Incorporated

John R. Whinnery, University of California at Berkeley

Tyrone Mitchell, Corning Incorporated

Robert Reynick, National Science Foundation

John Hurt, National Science Foundation

Morton Schwartz, Alpharetta, GA

Jeffrey Hecht, Auburndale, MA

David Duke, Park City, UT

Amnon Yariv, California Institute of Technology

Gilbert B. Devey, National Science Foundation

W. Lance Haworth, National Science Foundation
 

Cellular Phone Case:

Robert O. Harger, Rockville, MD

Philip T. Porter, Colts Neck, NJ

Theodore S. Rappaport, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Sheldon Hochheiser, AT&T Archives

Mary Edith Arnold, Motorola Museum of Electronics

Robert F. Roche, Cellular Telecommunications Industry Assn.

Martin Cooper, Chairman, ArrayComm, Inc.

James J. Mikulski, Motorola

George L. Turin, University of California at Berkeley

Donald Cox, Stanford University
 

CAD/EC Case:

Walter Rhines, Mentor Graphics, Inc.

Ronald Rohrer, Carnegie Mellon University

William McCalla, Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

Hermann Gummel, Lucent Technologies, Inc.

Melvin Breuer, UCLA

Patrick Pistilli, Boulder, CO

William Howard, Scottsdale, AZ

Donald Pederson, University of California, Berkeley

Daniel Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon University

Gary Hachtel, University of Colorado

Robert Grafton, National Science Foundation

John Lehmann, National Science Foundation