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Réseaux de biotech et nanotech : comparaison des taux de diffusion de technologies émergentes

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Susan Reid

Résumé de la communication

This exploratory investigation offers evidence regarding the differential impacts of (i) information flow rates (ii) network centrality and (iii) complexity of combining progenitor technologies on technology diffusion rates, internationally. In recent years, enhanced rates of information flow and exchange, facilitated by the internet, higher levels of student and labour mobility, alliances, and the existence of global manufacturing facilities, have increased the ability for a greater overall number and diversity of international players to enter emerging technology development trajectories. At the same time, these trends are creating more dispersed, or less centralized, R&D networks with concomitant problems associated with information flow in such diffuse situations. Initial evidence regarding the differential impact of these three factors on international diffusion rates is offered in a comparison of two technology trajectories originating in the 20th century. Specifically, the generic emergent technologies of interest, recombinant DNA (from the field of biotechnology) and nanomaterials/nanostructures (from the field of nanotechnology), offer great insight as their diffusion has had enormous impact in terms of public policy, university funding, industry development and financing, stock market impact and new product development, and will both continue to do so into the foreseeable future.

Résumé du colloque

Notre colloque invitera à une table ronde des intervenants des milieux de la biotechnologie et de la nanotechnologie, on peut par exemple penser aux directeurs de BioQuébec et de NanoQuébec, de la grappe InVivo, de représentants des industries qui utilisent les biotechnologies et des nanotechnologies, des responsables des ces technologies au ministère du développement économique de l’innovation et de l’exportation (MDEIE).

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host icon Hôte : Université de Sherbrooke, Université Bishop’s

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