More than a few of us at NIEHS were born around 1940 and recall that modern communication consisted of the telephone and the radio. Just take a trip through time, and look at the 1930 through 1990 editions of Popular Mechanics posted on the Internet (1). In the 1950s, a few envied families owned a black and white television, and by the 1970s color television began to replace the older sets. Fax...

This paper argues that it is important to devote greater attention to the study of entrepreneurship in technology transfer in the light of greater government attention, the growth in the phenomenon, the need to identify how wealth can be created from spin-outs, changes in the cultures of universities and differences with technological entrepreneurship in general. The paper summarizes the contri...

evidence from the early and late industrializes shows that technology, as the commercial application of scientific knowledge, has been a major driver of industrial and economic development. international technology transfer is now being recognized as having played an important role in the development of the most successful late industrializes of the second half of the 20th century. our society ...

In order to bridge the gap between research and industry, promoting technology and knowledge transfer becomes increasingly important. Especially smalland medium-sized enterprises, having only little R&D resources themselves, depend on external technology development activities for remaining innovative. Academia research on the other hand needs potential industrial partners, who are capable and ...

In 2004, the Korean government announced an ambitious IT strategy to establish Korea as one of the leaders in the world IT market. To implement this strategy, technology transfer from research laboratory to market should be successfully performed. This study is to identify factors influencing technology transfer and to examine the contribution of these factors on success of technology transfer ...

The main objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of technology transfer through the imports of intermediate goods by developing countries developed countries with the emphasis on Iran economy. For this purpose, we used multi-sectoral and multi–regional computable general equilibrium GTAP model (multi-sectoral and multi-regional CGE model). The paper examined the effect of a ten pe...

This article provides a brief overview of the National Science Foundation’s objectives in the formation of Science and Technology Centers at twenty-five U.S. universities. Survey respondents at the centers and industry participants express conflicting opinions over what they define as technology transfer, effectiveness of technology transfer, and factors and methods for facilitating technology ...

This paper aims at emphasizing the importance of establishing a Project Management (PM) system in Technology Transfer (TT) processes and developing a conceptual framework for it. TT is an important process in Technology Management affairs for all enterprises.  Most of the time, lack of a particular concentration on technical, commercial and legal aspects of TT process, leads to mismanagement of...