@article{9ecdfb187acc443f9060171ec81b9687,
title = "Technology assessment: A socio-cognitive perspective",
abstract = "Researchers use different approaches for assessing technologies. We develop this proposition by examining differences in approaches that 'insiders' and 'outsiders' use in their assessment of health care technologies. We also illustrate how the juxtaposition of these contrasting approaches creates a dynamic technological field and impacts technology selection.",
author = "Raghu Garud and David Ahlstrom",
note = "Funding Information: Efforts to set selection cycles in motion were in evidence from the early stages of cochlear implant development. Pleas for the institutionalization of comparative testing began as early as 1973 at an international conference organized by the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), with support from the NIH. Researchers at the conference proposed that comparative tests be systematically carried out between cochlear implants and its major substitutes, namely, hearing aids, vibro-tactile devices and other visual aids. There were pleas for standardization and integration so that research efforts on cochlear implants could be coordinated and a systematic comparison could be made between cochlear implants and substitutes (Merzenich and Sooy, 1974). NIH subsequently advertised a request for proposals asking various laboratories to suggest how they would conduct evaluations of subjects fitted with implanted auditory prosthesis. This contract was won by Robert Bilger and his group at the University of Pittsburgh in 197.5. Bilger and colleagues studied 13 patients implanted with devices developed by House and Michelson - two primary cochlear implant researchers. The absence of systematic comparable performance data was one major difficulty that Bilger and his colleagues confronted in conducting their comparative research l(Bilger et al., 1977). Bilger characterized much of the insiders{\textquoteright} evidence as being anecdotal, mainly dealing with patients reports of their experiences and reactions.",
year = "1997",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1016/S0923-4748(97)00005-2",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "14",
pages = "25--48",
journal = "Journal of Engineering and Technology Management - JET-M",
issn = "0923-4748",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "1",
}