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Definitions of Technology transfer:

The process of transferring scientific findings from research laboratories to the commercial sector.
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The process of converting scientific findings from research laboratories into useful products by the commercial sector.
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refers to the process by which existing knowledge, facilities or capabilities developed under federal research and development funding are utilized to fulfill public and private needs. It includes a range of formal and informal cooperations between federal laboratories and the public and private sectors. The purpose of the transfer is to strengthen the nation's economy by accelerating the application of federal laboratory technology and resources to private and public needs and opportunities. Results of successful technology transfer efforts include product improvement, service efficiencies, improved manufacturing processes, joint development to address government and private sector needs, and the development of major new products for the international marketplace.
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The practice of making technological information and aid available at low or no cost to agencies in developing countries. Although it may conflict with patent considerations, technology transfer is an effective means of ensuring the spread of energy-efficient, greenhouse-gas-diminishing industrial capabilities. The term also refers to the co-development of new or advanced systems through partnerships between enterprises in different countries (Source: Mintzer, 1992).
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The process of transferring technology (inventions, patents or other intellectual property) from one alliance partner to another. Usually, a patent or trademark license agreement is required to memorialize the details of the transfer.
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The transfer of technology mandated as part of a countertrade or offset agreement, other than coproduction or license production. It may be in the form of research and development, technical assistance and training, or patent agreements between manufacturers. This is central to many Third World enterprises, public and private, and is the focus of a large number of countertrade and offset deals.
www.countertrade.org/acaoffset.htm

the transfer of knowledge or equipment to enable the manufacture of a product, the application of a process, or the rendering of a service. [CUB].
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The ability to take a concept from outside the organization (typically from a government or university research programs) and create a product from it. (Process)
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The transfer of intellectual property between the ERC and the private sector.
www.erc-assoc.org/manual/bp_ch6_attach6_4.htm

Activities that lead to the adoption of a new technique or product by users and involves dissemination, demonstration, training and other activities that lead to eventual innovation.
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In the context of climate change policy, most often refers to the process by which energy-efficient technologies and processes developed by industrialized nations are made available to the less-industrialized nations. These transfers may be conducted solely through the efforts of private parties or may involve governments and international institutions.
www.climate.org.ua/glossary/glossary_t.html

The set of activities that support moving research results into the market place.<02.06>
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Through trade or capital flight, the movement or sharing of technology.
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The process by which energy-efficient and climate-friendly technologies developed by industrialized nations can be made available to less-industrialized nations.
www.ciionline.org/busserv/climatechange/glossary.htm

Transfer of technology that occurs as a result of an offset agreement and that may take the form of: research and development conducted abroad; technical assistance provided to the subsidiary or joint venture of overseas investment; or other activities under direct commercial arrangement between the U.S. manufacturer and a foreign entity.
www.clw.org/pub/clw/cat/offsetdefinitions.html

The process of converting scientific findings from research laboratories into useful products by the commercial sector.
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The transfer of technology mandated as part of a countertrade agreement, other than coproduction or license production. It may be in the form of research and development, technical assistance and training, or patent agreements between manufacturers. This is central to many Third World enterprises, public and private, and is the focus of a large number of countertrade and offset deals.
www2.gasou.edu/facstaff/drhrw/glossary-trade.html

Technology Transfer defines the concept as "the movement of know- how, technical knowledge, or technology from one organizational setting to another".
(Bozeman, Barry, Technology transfer and public policy: a review of research and theory, school of public policy, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, 2000)

Technology Transfer: The processes through which new technologies are created, commercialized, and adopted involve many different organizations and an extensive flow of information.
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309046300/html/16.html

In management, technology transfer refers to "intentional, goal oriented interaction" between two or more persons, groups or organizations in order to exchange technological knowledge and/or artifacts and rights.
(Amesse, F., Cohendet, P., Technology transfer revisited from the perspective of the knowledge- based economy, 2001)

Technology transfer is the process of utilizing technology, expertise, know-how or facilities for a purpose not originally intended by the developing organization. Technology transfers can result in commercialization or product/process improvement.
http://www.nttc.edu/aboutNTTC/faq.asp

Technology transfer is the process by which existing knowledge, facilities, or capabilities developed under federal research and development (R&D) funding are utilized to fulfill public and private needs.
(Technology transfer desk reference, Prepared by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer 950 North Kings Highway, Suite 208 Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 , 2004)

Technology transfer: Includes learning to understand, choose, utilise, adapt and replicate technology. http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/workshops/other_meetings/application/vnd.ms-powerpoint/ipccrep.ppt

Technology transfer: The process by which existing knowledge, facilities or capabilities developed under federal R&D funding are utilized to fulfill public and private needs.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ttic/faq/whatis.htm

Technology transfer is a term used to describe a formal transfer of rights to use and commercialize new discoveries and innovations resulting from scientific research to another party. Universities typically transfer technology through protecting (using patents and copyrights), then licensing new innovations. The major steps in this process include the disclosure of innovations, patenting the innovation concurrent with publication of scientific research and licensing the rights to innovations to industry for commercial development.
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Technology transfer includes a range of formal and informal cooperations between technology developers and technology seekers. In addition, technology transfer involves the transfer of knowledge and technical-know how as well as physical devices and equipment.
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http://www.afrl.af.mil/techtran/handbk/transferdocs/introduction.pdf

Technology transfer is the process by which basic science research and fundamental discoveries are developed into practical and commercially relevant applications and products.

Technology transfer is the process of transferring scientific findings from one organization to another for the purpose of further development and commercialization. The process typically includes:

Identifying new technologies
Protecting technologies through patents and copyrights
Forming development and commercialization strategies such as marketing and licensing to existing private sector companies or creating new start-up companies based on the technology

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