The Technology Cycle and Technology Transfer Strategies

Kenneth A. Zahringer (), Christos Kolympiris and Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes
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Kenneth A. Zahringer: University of Missouri
Christos Kolympiris: University of Bath
Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes: University of Missouri

A chapter in From Agriscience to Agribusiness, 2018, pp 317-334 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract University technology transfer offices (TTOs) must make decisions about whether and how to commercialize university innovations and do so with little or no information about the ultimate market value of the products that might eventually be derived from those innovations. Using technology life cycle theory, we derive and assess the usefulness of metrics that could provide additional information to assist in TTO decision making. We find that being able to locate a given innovation along a life cycle progression can decrease the uncertainty inherent in technology transfer decisions.

Keywords: Technology Transfer Offices (TTO); Life Cycle Engineering (TLC); University TTO; Focal Patent; Patent References (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67958-7_15

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