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A growing literature now exists on the way technology is ‘transferred’ either by the ‘push’ of research or the ‘pull’ of the market. Policies aimed at managing public and private research and development more effectively are being developed. State agencies and private corporations have in recent years engaged management consultants, formed policy studies units and established their own monitoring bodies to review working practices, organisational and administrative structures and financing policies in order to promote technology transfer.
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Webster, A. (1990). The Incorporation of Biotechnology into Plant-breeding in Cambridge. In: Varcoe, I., McNeil, M., Yearley, S. (eds) Deciphering Science and Technology. Explorations in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20520-2_8
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