Technosophy: Strategic Approaches to the Assessment and Management of Manufacturing Technology Innovation - Nato Science Partnership Subseries: 4 2002 edition

Marc Notes: Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division.; Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on The Strategic Approaches to the Assessment and Management of Manufacturing Technology Innovation, Bled, Slovenia, June 3-5, 1997--T.p. verso.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-189). Table of Contents: Introduction. Discussion. 1. Assessing Technologies: A Scientific Perspective. 2. Assessing Technologies: An Economic-Strategic Perspective. 3. Assessing Technologies: A Practitioner's Perspective. 4. Developing Assessment into Technological Choice. 5. Overview of the Research Field: Current Opportunities for Collaboration. 6. Cases from the Field: Stories of Technology Management. 7. Open Space Conference. 8. Key Research Questions and Challenges. 9. Towards a Best Practice Agenda: Opportunities for Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration. 10. Developing an Agenda for Research - Some Research Proposals. 11. Glimpses of the Technosophic Toolkit. 12. Review and Conclusions. References. Appendix: List of Participants. Publisher Marketing: This volume contains the genuine proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Strategic Approaches to the Assessment and Management of Manufacturing Technology Innovation, Bled, Slovenia, June 3-5, 1997. The word 'genuine' is used as the content of this book has arisen from ideas and reflections which arose during and after the workshop itself. It contains no pre-prepared papers or articles. The workshop was designed to create a forum for dialogue and debate. The essence of that debate is contained here. We acknowledge the support of NATO in making this possible. Because of the peculiar nature of these proceedings, we acknowledge all workshop participants as co-authors of different parts of the book and we pay tribute to them all. The proceedings have taken a while to prepare, as the reflection process has been long and varied! 1 Technosophy: Strategic Approaches to the Assessment and Management of Manufacturing Technology Innovation Paul Levy Mihael Junkar Location: Bled, Slovenia Date: June 3-5 1997 A 3-day workshop "Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain. " Rudyard Kipling 1. Introduction This is not a long book.

Contributor Bio:  Levy, Paul Paul Levy was born in Jamaica, moved to England, then back to Jamaica after high school to qualify as a solicitor. He came to Canada in the seventies, requalified in his profession and in 1981 became a partner in the New Westminster law firm of McQuarrie Hunter. Levy retired as partner in 2005 but continues to practice as associate counsel for the firm. "River Queen" is his first book.