Technological Metrics

Technological Metrics
Measure of technological performance
View points of US congress….
1. Societal
2. Political or Governmental
3. Enterprise
4. System or Project
Example…
o Low price for a drug – Human Immune Deficiency Virus
(HIV)
1) Societal Metrics
Relationship between technological change to social change
A complex dynamical system
2) Political or Governmental Metrics
Spann et al – 1995 – developed for studying TT metrics
Technology Pull Strategies – demand driven
Need motivated
Technology Push Strategies – Counting metrics -
Such as the number of licenses issued and papers published
Technology Pull relies on…
o Level of effort expanded
o Level of resources committed to TT activities
The technology-push metrics used by the sponsor included…
o Requests for Help
o Licenses Granted
o Number of site visits
The technology-pull metrics used by the sponsors of R & D
included…
The number of jobs created Degree of user satisfaction
Royalties collected
Technical problems solved
number of new commercial customers obtained
Number of new products developed
The metrics used as measures of TT included …
o Technical briefs / Papers requested
o Technical presentations
o Success stories published
o Site visits
o Requests for help

The metrics for measuring commercial success included…
o Commercial customers
o Commercial sales
o Licenses granted
o New business started
The measures of adopter benefits were founded by Spann et
al to be related to the number of…
o Technical problem solved
o Cost savings
o Productivity gains
o User satisfaction
3) Enterprise Metrics
An enterprise is usually concerned with how a new technology
product, process or service can achieve market success.
4) System or Project Metrics
Related to technical performance measure & are quantities
design related factors
Blanchard & Fabrycky – a cost effective model approach