2014
DOI: 10.1504/ijtpm.2014.064998
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Does astronomy generate economic benefits? Technological innovation seen through the lens of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope

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“…3 The evidence mainly comes from surveys to suppliers. Fernandes et al (2014) examined the impact of the European Southern Observatory procurement, uncovering technological benefits that they impute to technical challenges posed by collaborations. Castelnovo and Dal Molin (2020) investigated the benefits for 150 suppliers of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), confirming the existence of technological learning.…”
Section: Public Procurement For Innovationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…3 The evidence mainly comes from surveys to suppliers. Fernandes et al (2014) examined the impact of the European Southern Observatory procurement, uncovering technological benefits that they impute to technical challenges posed by collaborations. Castelnovo and Dal Molin (2020) investigated the benefits for 150 suppliers of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), confirming the existence of technological learning.…”
Section: Public Procurement For Innovationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Astronomy has helped advance science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and through a wide variety of spin-off technologies and practices has produced a significant return on investment (Fabian, 2010;Fernandes, Pessoa, & Silva, 2014). There are many examples of technology transfer from astronomy to industry: specialized film used by solar astronomers to monitor the Sun's temperature is now used extensively in industry and medicine; the charged coupled device (CCD) was first used in astronomy for imaging in 1976 and today CCDs can be found in virtually every camera including smart phones; a programming language invented by astronomers is now used by General Motors to analyze data from car crashes; and radio astronomers developed a technique called aperture synthesis that is the basis for computerized tomography (CAT scans) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which are used extensively in the practice of modern medicine (Fabian, 2010;Rosenberg, Russo, Bladon, & Christensen, 2015).…”
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confidence: 99%