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Technology transfer has become one of the major functions of research organisations. This transformation of research mission challenges scientists with new goals and trade-offs. To understand technology transfer, one has to distinguish among its different forms, and the interplay between personal and contextual dimensions.
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Why is it important?
Exchanges of tacit knowledge from industry to academia benefit from social interaction, while exchanges of codified knowledge are less context-dependent. Complex forms of technology transfer - those combining tacit and codified knowledge - require a broad endowment of resources, at both individual and contextual levels.
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It is the interplay between individuals and context that paves the way to technology transfer. Research policy - and research organisations - should design incentive mechanisms with this idea clear in mind.
Giancarlo Lauto
Universita degli Studi di Udine
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This page is a summary of: Individual and Institutional Drivers of Technology Transfer in Open Innovation, Industry and Higher Education, February 2013, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.5367/ihe.2013.0136.
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