The U.S. government technical report is a primary means by which the results of federally funded research and development (R&D) are transferred to the U.S. aerospace industry. However, little is known about this information product in terms of its actual use, importance, and value in the transfer of federally funded R&D. To help establish a body of knowledge, the U.S. government technical report is being investigated as part of the NASA/DOD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project. In this report, we summarize the literature on technical reports and provide a model that depicts the transfer of federally funded aerospace R&D via the U.S. government technical report. We present results from our investigation of aerospace knowledge diffusion vis-a-vis the U.S. government technical report, and present the results of research that investigated aerospace knowledge diffusion vis-a-vis the technical communications practices of U.S. aerospace engineers and scientists affiliated with the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).
NASA/DOD Aerospace Knowledge Diffusion Research Project. Report 24: The Technical Communications Practices of US Aerospace Engineers and Scientists: Results of the Phase 1 Sae Mail Survey
1994
53 pages
Report
No indication
English
Space Technology , Research Program Administration & Technology Transfer , Library & Information Sciences , Aerospace engineering , Engineers , Information dissemination , Information transfer , Reports , Scientists , Aerospace industry , Journals , Nasa programs , Research and development , Surveys