A community clearing house for technological awareness information

Abstract

A feasibility study was carried out for the EEC to examine the possibility of establishing an international Clearing House to aid technology transfer. Recent and related initiatives to promote innovation and communications within the Commun ity are described. A scheme is put forward, based on the activities of Industrial Information Transfer agents who would collect information for a National Centre which would then forward it to the Clearing House. In return, National Centres would receive information from the other member states and disseminate it to users. Enthusiasm for such a scheme was demonstrated by means of a questionnaire survey which il lustrated problems but indicated basic approval of the scheme. Finally, suggestions are made for a more thorough evaluation of the scheme.