Answer:
Science contributes to technology in at least six ways:
(1) new knowledge which serves as a direct source of ideas for new technological possibilities;
(2) source of tools and techniques for more efficient engineering design and a knowledge base for evaluation of feasibility of designs;
(3) research instrumentation laboratory techniques and analytical methods used in research that eventually find their way into design or industrial practices, often through intermediate disciplines;
(4) practice of research as a source for development and assimilation of new human skills and capabilities eventually useful for technology;
(5) creation of a knowledge base that becomes increasingly important in the assessment of technology in terms of its wider social and environmental impacts;
(6) knowledge base that enables more efficient strategies of applied research, development, and refinement of new technologies.