Sources of Medical Technology: Universities and Industry

By National Research Council

Evidence suggests that medical innovation is becoming increasingly dependent on interdisciplinary research and on the crossing of institutional boundaries. This volume focuses on the conditions governing the supply of new medical technologies and suggest that the boundaries between disciplines, institutions, and the private and public sectors have been redrawn and reshaped. Individual essays explore the nature, organization, and management of interdisciplinary R&D in medicine; the introduction into clinical practice of the laser, endoscopic innovations, cochlear implantation, cardiovascular imaging technologies, and synthetic insulin; the division of innovating labor in biotechnology; the government- industry-university interface; perspectives on industrial R&D management; and the growing intertwining of the public and proprietary in medical technology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309051894
• ISBN13: 9780309051897
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"