tech transfer

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.