11.7. BOUNDARY SPANNING
One main and perhaps crucial ingredient in technology transfer is boundary spanning. This requires some elaboration.
Engineers should be able to communicate effectively with other engineers, economists with other economists, and so on. Furthermore, an engineer with a specialization in air pollution control presumably can communicate better with another engineer in air pollution control than with an engineer specializing in groundwater hydrology. One could continue this argument further. The point is that with the increase in the complexity of science and technology, specialization has become necessary, and this increased specialization can inhibit communication. As discussed previously, an increase in communication among ...
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