From: Phillip Trotter Subject: Re: INFO: Critical Approach - business & financial institutions Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 02:04:16 +0000 Message-ID: <34860F9D.6C2D@btinternet.com> Organization: Red Bubble Productions Stefano Prof.Bob Stone. of VR solutions fame, was a key author of a report for the DTI in 1996 - which included a review of the UK VR marketplace - it also outlined a typical business process model of technology adoption. I believe Peter Swann at Manchester Business School produced some socio-economic models based upon Bob's work and would be worth contacting While the report was DTI internal, a publis summary of this report was published and is available report from the DTI's Information Society office. I believe an equivelent report was drawn up in the states in 1994 for the National Research Council ( sorry can't remember the reference, help Toni - anyone) while this would be considerably out of date by now - there may have been a follow up. Also check out the Institue for Defence Analysis review of peripheral technologies - avialable from the HITLAB's website - knowledge space project. This was published in 1996, i think, and provides a good review of background material. You could also try obtaining the final year reports and shareholders reports for companies such as Division, Superscape etc. Hope this helps, Phillip Trotter. Redbubble@btinternet.com [The US report Phillip is rerring to is: Nathaniel I. Durlach and Anne S. Mavor, Editors; Committee on Virtual Reality Research and Development (1995). Virtual Reality: Scientific and Technological Challenges. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. http://www.nap.edu/bookstore/isbn/0309051355.html -T.E.]