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Investments in R&D are always precarious, because both the technological and even more the commercial success are not certain. On the other hand, not investing in R&D involves the risk of a complete failure of an enterprise. There is a great need to develop tools for strategic R&D management. One of the difficult problems of R&D planning is the question, under which circumstances the results of basic research are needed and, if so, how are they successfully transferred into a broader technical application. In order to work on these particular problems, both the previous and this chapter describe the knowledge interface between science and technology by bibliometric and patent indicators, wherein the bibliometric studies were presented in chapter 8 and the patent analysis in this chapter (for a more detailed treatment of methods and results see Grupp, Reiss & Schmoch (1990); a methodological stand-alone version not referring to the other chapters of this volume has been published by Schmoch (1991)).
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Grupp, H., Schmoch, U. (1992). At the Crossroads in Laser Medicine and Polyimide Chemistry: Patent Assessment of the Expansion of Knowledge. In: Grupp, H. (eds) Dynamics of Science-Based Innovation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86467-4_9
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