Technology, Organisation and Export-driven Research and Development in Austria’s Electronics Industry

Author(s):  
L. Suarez-Villa
1974 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
D. S. Campbell

This paper firstly examines the market situation in passive components in relation to the total position of the electronics industry. Expenditure on research and development is then discussed and examples given of recent and present research and development activities in the field of passive components. The situation with regard to the publication position on research and development in passive components is briefly considered and it is concluded that there is a positive need for a journal covering the passive component field and acting as an outlet for papers generated in this area.


On 23 April-St George’s Day-I had the great privilege of giving the Society’s Third Technology Lecture. These Technology Lectures were intended to bring out the interplay between science and technology, but may I say straight away that although I had no worries about science I have never been very happy about the exact meaning of technology-a word that has crept very much into our vocabulary over recent years to the extent that we now even have a Ministry of that name. What do we mean by technology-what is the difference between a scientist, an engineer and a technologist? What are the boundaries of technology with science and engineering-do such boundaries even exist? Some of us have spent a considerable time during the last few years attending meetings of such bodies as the Prime Minister’s Central Advisory Council for Science and Technology and the Minister of Education’s Council for Scientific Policy, where a great deal of effort has been made to try to correlate the national spending on research and development with the progress of our country and the well-being of our people-with singularly little success.


The companies of the Manaus Industrial Pole are inserted in a market, where competitiveness is a factor of constant challenge, making it necessary to manage their opportunities in order to maximize their work processes, making them ergonomically viable, efficient and productive. The aim of this study is to analyze how important the use of multidisciplinary teamwork is for the development of innovative strategies that contribute not only to the modernization of manufacturing processes but that also reduce the ergonomic risks generated by them, offering to supported organizations by the law of good, the possibility of developing strategies and applying them in projects initiated by Research and Development (R&D), so that they are built and focused on the specific needs of the operations, reducing the risks involved, contributing consecutively to optimizing the results to from a holistic view of the organization. It is possible to identify the improvement of operational processes and the reduction of ergonomic risks, among other benefits.


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