Managing Technology Transfer A Strategy for the Federal Highway Administration -- Special Report 256 (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Involve me and I will know how. CHINESE PROVERB Innovation within the highway industry is important because it can help improve performance and safety; reduce environmental impacts; and reduce costs for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the nation's highway system.
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Research is needed to provide new products, methods, materials, and practices for the highway industry, and technology transfer is needed to ensure that research results are implemented by state and local highway agencies, contractors, materials suppliers, and other components of the highway industry.1 The purpose of this report is to examine innovation and technology transfer activities within the highway industry and to provide suggestions for improving and measuring the performance of FHWA's technology transfer efforts. Achieving innovation is a complex process involving many people and activities, with the ultimate aim of implementation and use of research products in an operating environment (see Chapter 2 for a discussion of the innovation process)
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Nonetheless, technology transfer and technical assistance programs often encounter considerable resistance, even when directed at specific changes based on sound evidence from well-conducted research and development. Innovation and technology transfer are a major part of FHWA's long and distinguished history and are of paramount importance to the agency's mission, which involves continually improving the nation's highway system and its intermodal connectors.2 In addition, FHWA recently reorganized to focus more on long-term planning and highway operations than on the construction of new highways.
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With no new major construction programs and fewer restrictions on federal highway funds, FHWA seeks to accomplish technology delivery through leadership and guidance in cooperation with state and local highway agencies. See Chapter 5 for a discussion of the implications of the reorganization for FHWA's technology transfer program.
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3. The resource centers support the state-level division offices by providing leadership on strategic initiatives and expert assistance on technical process and program issues, training, technology transfer, intermodal and interagency coordination, legal services, and civil rights.
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