My purpose is to review, synthesize and criticize the voluminous, multidisciplinary literature on technology transfer. To reduce the literature to manageable proportions, I focus chiefly (not exclusively) on recent literature on domestic technology transfer from universities and government laboratories. I begin by examining a set of fundamental conceptual issues, especially the ways in which the analytical ambiguities surrounding technology transfer concepts affect research and theory. My literature review follows and I emphasize technology transfer's impact and effectiveness. I employ a "Contingent Effectiveness Model of Technology Transfer" to organize the literature. As the model's name implies, it assumes that technology effectiveness can take a variety of forms. In addition to examining the more traditional effectiveness criteria- those rooted in market impacts- the model considers a number of alternative effectiveness criteria, including political effectiveness, capacity-building.
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Public policy, Research, Technology transfer, Theory
| Language(s): | English |
| Authors | Bozeman, Barry (School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA) |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Science B.V. |
| Keywords: | Public policy, Research, Technology transfer, Theory |
| Last update: | 2000 |