The Cooperative Strategy of Technology Transfer Offices: A Longitudinal Study

Mireille Matt () and Véronique Schaeffer
Additional contact information
Mireille Matt: Université Pierre Mendès France

Chapter Chapter 4 in Technology Transfer in a Global Economy, 2012, pp 51-72 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The literature on technology transfer offices (TTOs) focuses on the main variables explaining the performance of these organizations. The implicit strategic model considered by the literature is that the TTOs have to control all the activities, resources, competences of the value chain of the technology transfer process. The aim of the TTO is to maximize the revenues of the commercialization of academic results and its role is to manage a linear and unidirectional process. However, this model is not applicable for every university. In France, TTOs developed cooperative strategies with other local TTOs on the one hand, to pool resources and share costs and on the other hand, to structure the regional innovation system. TTOs do not anymore control internally all the activities and accept to share some of them with partners. Instead of having as unique objective to maximize the gains of technology transfer activities, TTOs set up alliances with the aim to diffuse more largely and at a higher speed the research results. The technology transfer process is considered as interactive and multidirectional. This alternative model is illustrated by a longitudinal study of a French University active since a long time in technology transfer activities.

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Technology Transfer; Cooperative Strategy; Knowledge Factory; Technology Transfer Office (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Working Paper: The cooperative strategy of technology transfer officies: a longitudinal study (2012)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:inschp:978-1-4614-6102-9_4

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9781461461029

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6102-9_4

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in International Studies in Entrepreneurship from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().