Evaluating the Intertwined Relationships of the Drivers for University Technology Transfer

Chia-Chi Sun

doi:10.3390/app11209668

Abstract

Universities are the best places to gather knowledge and innovation, but the basis of technological development lies in talented R&D personnel who provide services to enterprise R&D activities, research institutions, and universities. Universities also gather many elites who cultivate talent for the country. However, universities do not have adequate technology transfer experience and do not network in industrial circles, which results in a huge gap between the concept and the practical result. This research determined the critical success factors and explored the causal relationships influencing the technology transfer from universities. We found that the main impact of the key factors was the technology market dimension. University technology transfer activities had to be classified as top priority. Technology industrial applicability was the main key evaluation factor, along with inventor attitude. In the organizational culture dimension, the attitude and ability of top management were the main evaluation factors. We attempted to draw upon our analysis results to make recommendations related to technology transfer to assist universities in successfully transferring their research results.

Highlights

Research partnerships between indigenous elders and university academics are an adaptive wildcard in a complex, emerging, and uncertain world
Proper operations strategy and management of both resource usage and task arrangement. Through this well-constructed Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) approach, our research results sho in accordance with policy making will accomplish university technology transfer pattern that a proper operations strategy and management of both resource usage and task a rangement in accordance with policy making will accomplish university technolog transfer pattern evaluation planning strategy results
This paper demonstrates an integrated multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) technique that is more appropriate for a university technology transfer evaluation model for Taiwan’s universities

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Introduction

Research partnerships between indigenous elders and university academics are an adaptive wildcard in a complex, emerging, and uncertain world. Today’s generation was built by a highly knowledge-based economy. The research and development results from universities are more forward-looking, belonging to the early technology development stage [1,2,3]. Generating research benefits for the market takes a long time. Universities are the best places to gather knowledge and innovation, but the basis of technological development lies in talented R&D personnel who provide services to enterprise R&D activities, research institutions, and universities [4,5]. Universities gather many elites who cultivate talent for the country [6,7,8]. University R&D fees are 12% of the whole country’s

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