The aim of this paper is to examine technology transfer through backward linkages between multinational entreprises and local suppliers. Results show strong evidence on technology spillovers through backward linkages, especially in the case of export-oriented affiliates and fully-owned affiliates.
The report concludes organizational changes, budget difficulties, and a significant increase in privately funded research and development (R&D) nationally are hindrances for NASA in its technology transfer efforts.
The authors review and synthesize the burgeoning literature on institutions and agents engaged in the commercialization of university-based intellectual property. These studies indicate that institutional incentives and organizational practices both play an important role in enhancing the effectiveness of technology transfer.
The authors examine the impact of NAFTA on total factor productivity in Mexico through its impact on trade-related technology transfers from OECD countries. Trade-related technology diffusion is estimated with the use of a measure of trade-related foreign research and development.
The study analyzes 120 university-industry technology transfer projects. A significant positive relationship was found between the learning activities performed by the firm during the development and implementation stages of the technology transfer project and the benefits to that firm from the project.
The report summarises the results of the “Best project on technology transfer institutions in Europe” and presents recommendations, which are addressed at policy makers at European and national level, universities and other public research organisations, as well as technology transfer organisations and their managers. The aim is to increase volume and quality of technology transfer and the efficiency of transfer institutions.
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.