Sustainability of University Technology Transfer: Mediating Effect of Inventor’s Technology Service

Fang Li,Yuhuan Jin,Sheng Zhang

doi:10.3390/su10062085

Abstract

Based on the perspective of knowledge transfer and the technology acceptance model (TAM), this paper constructs a university technology transfer sustainable development model that considers the inventor’s technology service from the perspective of the long-term cooperation of enterprise, and analyzes the mediating effect of the inventor’s technology service on university technology transfer sustainability. By using 270 questionnaires as survey data, it is found that the availability of an inventor’s technology service has a significant positive impact on the attitude tendency and practice tendency of enterprise long-term technological cooperation; enterprise technology absorption capacity and trust between a university and an enterprise also have significant influence on an inventor’s technical service availability. Therefore, the inventor’s technology service acts as a mediator in the relationship between university technology transfer sustainability and influence factors. Universities ought to establish the technology transfer model, which focuses on the inventor’s tacit knowledge transfer service, and promotes the sustainable development of the university.

Highlights

University technology transfer is an important way for university research to promote social development
Sustainable development at university level examines the impact of university research on the economy and environment, it looks at the impact of knowledge transfer [7]
In order to research the sustainable development of university technology transfer, the model measures the sustainability of university technology transfer from the two dimensions: the long-term attitude tendency and the long-term practice tendency of enterprises, who act as recipients of university technology transfer

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Introduction

University technology transfer is an important way for university research to promote social development. It is necessary to study the role of the inventor’s tacit knowledge transfer in the sustainable development of university technology transfer, in order to promote the sustainable development of the university. The current research on sustainable development at university level is mainly concerned with the sustainability of higher education [4,5]. Sustainable development at university level examines the impact of university research on the economy and environment, it looks at the impact of knowledge transfer [7]. The establishment of a technology transfer office could strengthen technology transfer, and is an important way to simultaneously promote the sustainable development of the economy, society, and the university [9]

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