Must read for all aspirants who are preparing for
IAS Examination
The primary reason for Sematech's success has been the organizational and human
resource structures devoted to technology transfer. More specifically, the organization
pays great attention to...
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Must read for all aspirants who are preparing for
IAS Examination
The primary reason for Sematech's success has been the organizational and human
resource structures devoted to technology transfer. More specifically, the organization
pays great attention to the role of "assignees" from sponsoring firms who come to
Sematech to participate in research and then take ideas back with them. Indeed, when a
technology transfer manager was asked to describe IAS examination how Sematech
transferred knowledge, she commented: "We have documents, document databases, an
intranet Web, groupware, you name it. But the assignees and the face-to-face meetings
we have are by far the most important channels for transferring knowledge to the
member firms." A company that fails to keep track of components needed in a
manufacturing process probably will not thrive. The same is true of companies that
don't keep track of their knowledge components—even more so,
because knowledge assets are difficult to buy in a
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