Managing Research, Development, and Innovation: Managing the Unmanageable, Third Edition

17.1. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

There is consensus in the literature and among knowledgeable scientists that technology stimulates science. As Bondi (1967) put it: "It is certainly a matter of experience that every time our experimental technique has taken a leap forward, we have found things totally unexpected and wholly unimaginable before. I see no reason whatever to expect that future improvements in experimental techniques will not have the same effect." This comment reminds us of the advances in astronomy after the development of the telescope, in bacteriology after the invention of the microscope, and so on.

Less obvious examples include advancements in meteorological prediction after the invention of the supercomputer, ...