ABSTRACT
The development of the ideas for this discussion is rooted in experiences gained from the authors who have spent many years in technology acquisition and deployment in the academic, governmental, industrial and private sectors. The specific examples used are from direct and personal experiences in industrial manufacturing and academic research from the mid-to late 1980s through to the present day. The experiences began, however, in the early 1970s with exposure to foreign scientific intelligence by one of the authors while in the US government.
