The very success of the industries that produce information technology (IT) and the pervasiveness of their products and services in our daily lives can obscure the mutually reinforcing roles that industry, government, and academia play in conducting IT research and its translation into new products, services, and industries. This project will capture examples of such phenomena as how much industry builds on government-funded university research, the long incubation periods sometimes needed for research to be translated into major industry activities, the steady work and funding required to get from initial exploration to large-scale commercial deployment, the interdependencies between research advances in different subfields, and the complex nature of the IT research ecology. This project will build on earlier work by developing additional and/or more in-depth examples and providing updated information on research impacts and the other phenomena listed above in the context of these examples.
