Keeping Abreast of Science and Technology: Technical Intelligence - Tapa dura

Shows managers and others in business how to develop, manage, and use technical intelligence programs, with sections on basic concepts of technical intelligence, managing technical intelligence organizations in business, approaches and tools for producing competitive technical intelligence, applying results, and contemporary issues and future trends. An appendix describes major science and technology information services that provide access to databases, describes specific databases and electronic bulletin boards, and lists federal agencies, technology transfer organizations, print resources, and associations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.