Naslov
Editorial

Autori
Dabić, Marina

Izvornik
Vol.2.no. 1

Vrsta, podvrsta
Ostale vrste radova, ostalo

Godina
2012

Ključne riječi
technology; technology transfers

Sažetak
“Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge ; and its nature is sinned against when it is drowned in ignorance.” William W. Channing Technology is becoming the most significant factor of economic, societal, cultural and civilisational development. It influences the relationships among people, economic entities and states. Technology has accompanied man since the ancient times with the single basic task: to make life easier. Life without technology is inconceivable. This was clear to J. Beckmann as early as in 1777 when he stated that “technology is a comprehensive science on interlockedness of technics, economics and society”1 . Technology as a limited and stringently defined phenomenon for centuries followed the trodden paths where it emerged, spread, traded, thrived or failed. Technological innovation has offered a new approach to the technology market facilitating the distribution or reception of larger multitudes of data than ever before. Technology is a civilisational phenomenon – constantly modifying, changing itself and the very human being. Its civilisational achievement lies in the very bonding between the material processing methods and the contemporary social structures and human values from the past and the present with a view to the future. Thus, technology leaves its marks on the system of values, culture, organisation, economics, professions, the manufacturing methods and the shapes of human life. Although the market is still (for the time being) dominated by technologies generated (invented) in the developed countries there is a rising awareness of the need for creating technologies and knowledge on a human scale, which requires using and pursuing new technologies both in the developed and in developing and transition countries. Technology and innovation, as significant segment, make sense only if they contribute to the quality of life as an inclination beyond, before and above the materialistic glorification of reality as well as if their primary aim is to be as available as possible. Thus, new technologies reduce the limiting factors (space, time resources and capital – making their availability more acceptable and diversified. The very (technological) changes occurring presently alter the relationships among the actors in any correlation with the technology: owners, manufacturers, distributors, or users – thus conditioning different cooperation and correlations. Technology has produced the world economy which is often referred to as ‘the global village’. New achievements in communication technology or microelectronics facilitate the control over international markets, which accelerates organisational growth and improves the opportunities for a greater inclusion into the international market. More and more significance is attached nowadays to the apparent interactive technologies, technological trajectories, new technological systems2 or generic technologies. These notions explicate the application of the concept of economic and technologically interlocked group innovations. Informatics and other generic technologies generate transectoral effects, thus changing a country’s socio-economic image. Technology has also become the primary feature of the organisational culture as it has increasingly been the determining factor in an organisation’s culture, which is visible from the very manner it is presented and communicated in an organisation. Today many firms – especially the high-technology firms – emphasise their attitude towards technology as their fundamental feature and the way they implement it. The Greek philosopher Aristotle taught of the repugnance which nature exhibits towards a vacuum (horror vacui). This opinion was seconded by the American economist Thurow (1993) in his study on the new economic confrontations in international relations saying that “the economy fears vacuum just as the Mother nature” and that “with economic competition between communism and capitalism over, this other competition – between two other forms of capitalism – has quickly taken over the economic field”. Establishing quality public relations implies adjustment to the environment alongside respect and an exceptionally huge number of permanent programmes – both traditional and new – and facilitates changes in the environment and in all partakers in subsistence and creation of new innovations and technologies. Yet investment in R&D, the widely recognised driving force of innovation, remains highly clustered. “The United States is in the lead with close to a third of the world’s total investment of the worlds’ total investment followed by the European Union (25%), Japan, (13%) and China (9%). All other countries worldwide combined account for only 18% of R&D expenditure” (Bolay et al., 2012).

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