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Technology is changing the world rapidly. Massive industrialization spurred the development of technology based systems in manufacturing information technology telecommunications and wireless communication industries. With development in technology the product development process, product development time turn around time and team communications have seen rapid improvements in many industries. Because technology has got significant importance in day to day life the discipline of Technology Management has emerged as an important aspect in the current industrial and knowledge era.

This book is about the concepts and perspectives of technology management process and technology acquisition and transfer. It discusses the dynamics of technology management and humanware, linking science and technology with industry technology roadmapping for commercializing strategic innovations organizational models for innovation organizational designs that support innovation, technology attributes and intellectual property management issues.

The perspectives discussed in this book include top managements support to strategic technology projects multinational and globalization of technology development Brah Mos: The supersonic Cruise missile managing innovation in organizations technology planning based management for R and D institutions using technology transfer for maximizing business efficiency design risk and new product development and engineering ethics related issues from the challenger to the Columbia space shuttle.