tech transfer

The report by the Australian Department of Education, Science and Training provides a number of measures of the commercialization activity carried out by publicly funded research organizations in 2001 and 2002. Data collected in the survey for Australian universities was compared to data from similar surveys of commercial activities in United States, Canadian and United Kingdom universities.

The paper examines the first Canadian attempt to assess the impacts on the economy of the transfer of technology for federally-funded research. Despite the fact that technology transfer from public sources is a rare event, the number of transfers reported on the business side is much higher than those previously reported by the public institutions.

The paper examines faculty participation in university technology transfer using data on individual researchers from the medical schools of Duke University and Johns Hopkins University. Results suggest that the adoption of initiatives is a function of the norms at the institutions where the individual trained, the observed behavior of those in leadership positions, and the observed behavior of similar individuals.

The report sets a benchmark for evaluating technology transfer activity at the University of Arizona in comparison to other major research universities, through the examination of nine key indicators or activities that occur throughout the technology innovation process.

The report summarizes the technology transfer activities and achievements of the Department of Commerce’s federal laboratories. Each of the major sections of the report summarizes the agency’s technology transfer approaches and plans while providing specific information about the activities and accomplishments for FY 2003 and several earlier comparative years.

The paper tests the hypothesis that many governments offer significant inducements to attract inward investment for five transition countries in Eastern Europe using panel data on more than 8000 plants in the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.

The paper provides a model to explain the specific role of technology transfer using an asymmetric information framework. The results indicate that a technology transfer office is often able to benefit from its capacity to pool the innovations across research units within universities.

The authors examine the interplay of the three major university actors in technology transfer from universities to industry: the faculty, the technology transfer office (TTO), and the central administration. Findings indicate that the TTOs reported licensing objectives are influenced by their views of faculty and administration, which supports the assumption that the TTO is a dual agent.

This paper examines the evolution of university practices and policies towards technology transfer at one American research university, the Johns Hopkins University.

The paper examines the nature of reverse technology transfer between Asian firms and their subsidiaries in the United States. The authors propose a new model of technology development where Asian subsidiaries locate in targeted geographical areas in the U.S. with the objective of acquiring both tacit and codifiable knowledge.