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Technology Transfer Systems in the United States and Germany
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Increasingly, the value of science and engineering research to society is measured by how readily research results are translated into useful products and services. Fundamental to this process is technology transfer, which has been the subject of growing public discourse since the early 1980s and is now more than ever a focal point of policy interest. This renewed attention to technology trans- fer is occurring at a time when expanding international markets, global competition, and other pressures are forcing companies to rationalize or reengineer their operations, often in the face of increasingly constrained resources. The following consensus study, prepared by a binational panel of Ger- man and American experts, documents the significance of effective technology transfer to industrial competitiveness in a global economy. The study’s findings make clear that it is no longer appropriate to view technology transfer as a simple one-way transfer—from research performer to technology user—of processed knowledge and finished concepts. Rather, technology transfer should be under- stood as a mutual, multidirectional exchange—comprising many different forms and mechanisms—within and between nonindustrial research institutions and industry.
0-309-52293-5
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Information Technology
English
1997
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