tech transfer

This inaugural edition of The Better World Report - a series of printed and online resources - explores 25 successful products that resulted from technology transfer .

In bridging the technology gap with the OECD nations, developing economies have access to three avenues of technological advance: domestic R&D, technology transfer, and foreign direct investment. This paper examines the contributions of each of these avenues, as well as their interactions, to productivity within Chinese industry.

This Handbook describes a voluntary programme of Responsible Partnering aimed at improving the organisation, management and overall effectiveness of joint research and strategic knowledge transfer activities involving public research organisations and companies.

Based on interviews with 128 university technology transfer offices (UTTO) directors, we show that whereas for-profit UTTO structures are positively related to new venture formation, traditional university and nonprofit UTTO structures are more likely to correlate with the presence of university-based business incubators.

This article examines the evidence behind claims that innovation is hindered or blocked (termed technology suppression) by corporations’ use of patents.

It is often argued that multinationals are reluctant to transfer technology due to the fear of spillovers, according to the authors. The paper demonstrates that this need not be the case if host country policies like taxation are taken into account. The authors examine the incentives the multinational and the host country have to engage in an international joint venture.

This descriptive paper is part of a large project aiming at exploring the factors determining the propensity of Swiss science institutions to interact with private enterprises in Switzerland (universities and other research institution), i.e. to get involved in knowledge and technology transfer (KTT) activities.

This study explores the factors determining the propensity of Swiss firms to interact with public science institutions in Switzerland (universities and other research institution), i.e. to get involved in knowledge and technology transfer (KTT) activities in order to gain new tacit and/or codified scientific knowledge in research fields which are relevant for their own innovation activities.

The authors study technology transfer (TT) in a duopoly model with heterogeneous goods under quantity and price competition. They prove that some but not all the properties of TT under homogeneous goods are preserved in their framework.

The European Union accomplished its biggest enlargement process in 2004 in terms of the number of countries, area, and population. This study focuses on the impact of enlargement, the resulting technology transfer on the grain sectors of the New Member States and the consequent welfare implications.