TECHNOLOGY

Science contributes to technology in at least six ways:

• Direct source of ideas for new technological possibilities
• Efficient engineering design and knowledge base for evaluation feasibility of designs
• Aboratory techniques and analytical methods used in research and find their way into design or industrial practises
• Development and assimilation of new human skills and capabilities, eventually useful to technology
• Increasingly important in the assessment of technology in terms of i social and environmental impacts
• Enables more efficient strategies of applied research, development, and  refinement of new technologies

Technology uses science to solve problems and science uses technology to make new discoveries.