Selected papers from a seminar on the management of technology transfer, UCLA, March 1968

THE accelerating pace of technology in recent years is a fact of common knowledge. The most significant manifestation of it is the growing mountain of technical information spewed forth by the printing presses. Matching this expansion is a rapidly growing scientific and technical population, which, in the United States, has doubled from perhaps 300 000 in 1930 to over 600 000 in 1950, and then doubled again to a little less than 1 200 000 today.