1. From the editor

   • Ralph Segman

   EditorialNotes Pages: 4 - 4

2. R&D spinoffs: Serendipity vs. a managed process

   • Marilyn A. Brown
   • C. Robert Wilson

   Articles Pages: 5 - 15

3. Extension services and intermediaries: Brokering federal technologies to smaller firms

   • Diane Palmintera

   Articles Pages: 16 - 23

4. Promoting small business through public-sector technology transfer

   • Raymond Radosevich
   • Cesar Lombana

   Articles Pages: 24 - 34

5. The real lessons of Japanese research consortia

   • Gerald J. Hane

   Articles Pages: 35 - 42

6. Implementing robotics technology: A case study in organizational learning

   • Donald F. McLean
   • Lloyd A. Swanson
   • David Wilemon

   By the Case Pages: 43 - 52

7. Methodology of an independent technology-transfer organization

   • Eugene R. Cochran

   By the Case Pages: 53 - 58

8. Inventions that almost were

   • Barry Fox

   By the Case Pages: 59 - 62

9. Improving federal technology commercialization: Some recommendations from a field study

   • Mary S. Spann
   • Mel Adams
   • William E. Souder

   Research Pages: 63 - 74

10. From linearity to holism in technology-transfer models

    • Juan B. Climent

    Research Pages: 75 - 87

11. Technology transfer: Toward mapping the field, a review, and research directions

    • Eliezer Geisler

    Research Pages: 88 - 93

12. The relation between technology import and domestic R&D

    • Jong Bum Kim
    • Charles T. Stewart Jr.

    Research Pages: 94 - 103

13. Book review

    • John Sevier

    BookReview Pages: 104 - 106