Philosophy of technology transfer

For universities and researchers affiliated with universities

Abstract

It seems as though the focus of cooperation between an industry and universities, which has naturally tended toward technology transfer, has been diverted to the number of patents awarded and the amount of royalties collected. Amidst business activities that center on marketability, this relationship has now become a battleground for protecting the rights of universities and the researchers affiliated with them. True technology transfer is not the transfer of patents, it is the transfer of people with the ability to create patentable concepts. This is the real value of universities as research and educational institutions.