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New Wealth Commercialization of Science and Technology for Business and Economic Development
George Kozmetsky, Frederick Williams, Victoria Williams
Book Code: Q631
ISBN: 1-56720-631-X
ISBN-13: 978-1-56720-631-9
224 pages, figures; map; tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2004
List Price: $65.00 (UK Sterling Price: £37.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • [T]o provide the aspiring entrepreneur with a thorough, technical assessment of how technology translates to business wealth. Chapters discuss the evolution and applications of the 'technolopolis network', survey regional revitalization and catalysts for change, and apply a business frame-work to scientific discovery. College-level audiences will find this important.
    —Library Bookwatch     July 2005
  • Any who want to create wealth from scientific achievement would do well to understand the processes involved, and the intention of New Wealth: Commercialization of Science and Technology for Business and Economic Development is to provide the aspiring entrepreneur with a thorough, technical assessment of how technology translates to business wealth....College-level audiences will find this important.
    —MBR Internet Bookwatch     July 2005
Description: Drawing from more than 25 years experience in research and project creation, Kozmetsky and Williams describe how accelerated commercialization strategies building on advances in science and technology offer a sustainable source of wealth. They show how collaboration among business, government, entrepreneurial, and academic partners--all focusing to leverage local resources to compete in the global marketplace--is an established and powerful strategy for 21st century business creation and economic development. This collaborative success strategy of "thinking globally and acting locally," along with supportive activities such as technology incubators, research methods, entrepreneurship training, and use of networks for resource sharing is what has come to be called the "Technopolis paradigm." Because a maturing Technopolis evolves as an integral component of a city, state, or larger sociopolitical unit, it promotes attention to sustainability and quality of life. Further, Kozmetsky and Williams consider the Technopolis paradigm as a process of constructive capitalism in that it utilizes private or corporate commercialization of science and technology to create wealth and shared prosperity, the value of which is set by competition in a free market.
Table of Contents:
  • Science and Technology as the New Prosperity
  • Technology as a Wealth Concept
  • Today's Wealth of Nations
  • Technology-Based Enterprise Creation
  • Think Globally, Act Locally
  • Managing in Fast Company
  • Fast Companies and Zero Time
  • Progress in Networks and Networking
  • Learning Amidst, For, and Using Technology
  • Creating the Technopolis
  • Adoption of Innovations
  • Technology Transfer
  • Designing Industrial Parks and Incubators
  • Why an Enterprise Center?
  • Advances in Management Science
  • Power Tools for Applied Research
  • Decision Science and Risk Analysis
  • Revitalizations
  • Austin Model: A City Reinvents Itself
  • Project CBIRD: Bi-National Wealth Creation
  • Project CARIBE: Prosperity in Paradise
  • Anzoategui: A Venezuelan State of Change
  • En Cuba: Biotech, Education and Health Services
  • Prosperity Sharing
  • Toward Capitalism with Conscience
  • Afterglow
  • Appendixes
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • About the Authors
LC Card Number: 2004018596
LCC Class: HC110
Dewey Class: 338
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