Technology Transfer Organizations Research Articles

Organizing University Economic Development: Lessons from Continuing Education and Technology Transfer

AbstractHow continuing education and technology transfer organizations are placed in a university makes a difference in their effectiveness.

Methodology of an independent technology-transfer organization

Today economic growth depends heavily upon the competency of organizations to implement new ideas for improving their competitiveness.(1) However, the difficulty of evaluating embryonic inventions impedes industry's ability to estimate the risks and rewards of resource allocation for development of nascent technologies. Research Corporation Technologies employs a rigorous methodology to minimize risk while maximizing return in transferring inventions from academe to industry. Proven strategies for technology appraisal and commercialization account for RCT's success.

Worldwide policy trends in agricultural extension: Part I

Agricultural extension is one of the oldest and most important prototypes for technology-transfer organizations. The purpose of this paper is to help policymakers to keep track of how extension is developing in countries throughout the world. Such attention is especially warranted as extension has come under attack both in its identification with the public sector and in how that tie is expressed. Five fundamental models for organizing extension are outlined: farmingsystems research and extension, farming-information dissemination, training and visit, communications for technology transfer, and the cooperative-extension system of the U.S. Part I of this two-part paper outlines the major policy issues raised by these models and Part II (to be published in a later issue) will provide an in-depth discussion of a central issue underlying these models: the appropriate role of public- versus private-sector extension.

The British Technology Group: Leading the way forward

The British Technology Group, an organization at the forefront of technology transfer, has recently concluded another highly successful year with expansion in all areas of its business. The key to this is the combination and breadth of technical, commercial, patenting and legal skills which are encompassed in a single organization. The group has recently taken a number of initiatives to license its total portfolio of inventions more widely internationally as well as promoting new areas of business, all directed at consolidating its position as the leading technology transfer organization in the world.

Joint Ventures, Technology Transfer and Technocratic Organization in Nationalist China, 1928-1949

(1987). Joint Ventures, Technology Transfer and Technocratic Organization in Nationalist China, 1928-1949. Republican China: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 3-21.

The Ohio Technology Transfer Organization — OTTO: An experiment in academia assisting business

The Ohio Technology Transfer Organization — OTTO: An experiment in academia assisting business

The transfer of Federal technology and the community college

The State of Ohio has developed a transfer mechanism using its technical and community colleges. A pilot program began in 1979. The program includes eleven of the State's technical and community colleges and the Ohio State University acting as program manager. This paper reports on a program which is a cooperative effort with the Federal Laboratory Consortium that represents some 200 Federal laboratories and the Ohio technical and community college network. The role of the Ohio Technology Transfer Organization (OTTO) is explained and Federal Laboratory Consortium demonstration projects are discussed.