Chapter 11
Inward Technology Transfer: A Key Link in the Technology Supply Chain
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Northern Illinois University
INTRODUCTION
DEVELOPING NEW PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES is critical to the competitive success of many firms. When developing new products and processes, it is very common to incorporate new technologies. Firms rarely rely solely on internal R and D for the initial development of all technologies they will employ in a new system (Wheelwright and Clark 1992a). The acquisition of technologies from external organizations and their incorporation into products and processes—the “inward technology transfer process”—not only rations scarce R and D resources, but also ...
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