| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/J60247/01 |
| Title: |
EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF THE DYNAMICS OF TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT |
| Principal Investigator: |
Maver, Professor T |
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| Department: |
Architecture |
| Organisation: |
University of Strathclyde |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 August 1993 |
Ends: |
31 May 1995 |
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110,019
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| Aerospace, Defence and Marine |
Information Technologies |
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The general aim is to investigate the dynamics of technology development, thereby to gain insight into technology-driven creativity.The main objective is to construct a compendium of examples of data, information and knowledge which illustrates how advances in the state of the art in 'smart systems' have influenced the design of a domain (in this case weapons technology and, in particular, missile technology) which has seen sustained, massively resourced, highly competitive design activity which has involved simultaneous exploration of parallel and redundant options as a matter of national imperative irrespective of commercial justification.These development will then be characterised, and their dependencies identified, so that the 'acts of creation' which gave rise to new 'prototypes' can be identified, so that the support the hypothesis that when an emergent technology is generic, and is developed relatively quickly, it stimulates rapid changes in well-established domains and gives rise to revolutionary rather than evolutionary development.
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http://www.strath.ac.uk |