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10 CHAPTER TWO FACTORS AFFECTING THE USE, TIMING, AND EASE OF IMPLEMENTATION INTRODUCTION This chapter provides a discussion on the factors that affect the timing and ease of implementation of research results. Some factors exist independently, but many are dependent on a variety of other factors in the implementation process and in the deployment environment.
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11 However, for both these situations, at the earlier stages of activity or having identified a systematic approach, there is little consensus about which processes are most successful. Contexts vary: The concept of accelerating research results to practice is relative depending on the context in which the implementation takes place.
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12 the Valley of Death for Materials and Processes in Defense Systems, the National Academies panels concluded, "there is no single strategy that, if implemented, will accelerate the insertion of new technologies into either commercial or military systems. Instead, it is more likely that the omission of a key element of the many needed will guarantee failure" (National Materials Advisory Board and Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design 2004, p.
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13 sector research and development efforts (Canez et al.
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14 sic work, Diffusion of Innovations, for a discussion of the importance of champions and a description of their roles in health care, student activism, city government, and a variety of other contexts (Rogers 2003, p.
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15 (PIAs) that provide a formalized role for an intermediary player between the institutions producing the research results (who have implementation and technology transfer functions)
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16 that it was successful, without substantive benchmarking to determine whether the practice was indeed "best." With that caveat, use of best practices is universally endorsed by every domain and in every context within the literature addressing implementation. Some domains are more advanced than others in identifying genuinely best practices.
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