How technoscientific knowledge advances: A Bell-Labs-inspired architecture
提出一种名为“贝尔十二面体”的架构,包含六种机制和两种类型,解释科学与技术如何进步,并弥合理论与实践之间的鸿沟,对研发管理者和创新研究者有参考价值。
Understanding how science and technology advance has long been of interest to diverse scholarly communities. Thus far, however, such understanding has not been easy to map to, and thus to improve, the operational practice of research and development. Indeed, one might argue that the operational practice of research and development, particularly its exploratory research half, has become less effective in recent decades. In this paper, we describe a rethinking of how science and technology advance, one that is consistent with many (though not all) of the perspectives of the scholarly communities just mentioned, and one that helps bridge the divide between theory and practice. The result is an architecture we call “Bell's Dodecants,” to reflect its six mechanisms and two flavors, and their balanced nurturing at Bell Labs, the iconic 20th century industrial research and development laboratory.