CRIM: a new model for technology development and technology transfer

Freedman, Paula; Quesnel, Louise; Roy, D.

doi:10.1109/ccece.1993.332206

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“…These institutions are often applied research institutes closely related to universities such as the Fraunhofer Institute or the Software Engineering Institute . These institutions primarily aid industry by providing support for administrative aspects of technology transfer . This need is also reflected in the suggestion by Harrison to employ some outsider as a mediator to bridge the gap between academia and industry.…”

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“…More common are reports on barriers caused by cultural and social issues (eg, previous studies) such as collaboration projects between research and industry that involve too many people with too divergent goals and agendas. Buxton and Malcolm report among others on the lack of awareness of new technologies prevalent in industry.…”

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“…Another factor that hampers widespread technology transfer is business interests by industry partners involved in research projects, who are usually reluctant to have competitors access to information about successful new technologies and sometimes hinder researchers from publishing results obtained in collaboration …”

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“…While this is the case for some factors, other relate to personal attitudes of core employees, or even more often on a mismatch between industry and academia. Specifically, a mismatch between industry and academia in expectations, goals, and needs as well as more general in different cultures is reported (eg, other studies). This means, for instance, that industry assumes that academia was interested in providing a technology, which optimally fits and does not need any company‐specific adaptations.…”

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Approaches, success factors, and barriers for technology transfer in software engineering—Results of a systematic literature review

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Daun

Brinckmann

et al. 2018

J Software Evolu Process

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Introduction: Technology transfer aims at supporting the transfer of results from software engineering research from academia to industrial application.Objective: This paper reports on the current state of technology transfer in software engineering.Method: We conducted a systematic literature review, in which we investigated 3070 papers. We identified in total 70 relevant papers, which were subject of a detailed analysis.Results: Many different approaches are proposed to foster technology transfer in software engineering. The majority of these approaches suggest direct collaboration between industry and academia or teaching new technologies in industrial training or university education. In addition, a considerable number of experience reports on technology transfer exist. Hence, a multitude of best practices, success stories, and lessons learned is reported. Among others, empirical evidence, maturity, and adaptability of the technology seem important preconditions for successful transfer, while social and organizational factors seem important barriers to successful technology transfer.Conclusion: Our findings can aid software engineering researchers in determining how best to support the transfer of their research results into practice. Furthermore, analysis of the literature also revealed that no reports exist on the combination of various technology transfer approaches, which could increase advantages of existing approaches while reducing their disadvantages. KEYWORDS software engineering, systematic literature review, technology transfer 1 | BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION Software engineering research aims at solving real-world problems (cf Wieringa 1 ) and demands the evaluation of a proposed solution in an industrial setting (cf Basili 2 and Salman et al 3 ). However, there is often still a gap between academic solution proposals and industrial needs, and for many results from software engineering research, it takes a long time to have an impact on software engineering practices. 4 This is not only due to the fact that novel results from academic research are often unknown to practitioners but also that those research results are often not directly applicable to industry. 5To close this gap, software engineering research also deals with technology transfer itself (cf Pfleeger 6 ). Technology transfer aims at supporting the transfer of research results from academia to practice and is thus of interest to many scientific disciplines (cf, eg, Teece 7 ). While some challenges remain the same regardless of the technology to be transferred, others are particular to the software engineering field, as software engineering technologies typically evolve in a short time and thus the state of the art constantly changes (cf Boehm 8 and Finkelstein and Kramer 9 ).There exists a plethora of proposed solution approaches to foster technology transfer in software engineering as well as experience reports on successful technology transfer projects. Nevertheless, there is a need to support researchers in identifying proper technol...

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Approaches, success factors, and barriers for technology transfer in software engineering—Results of a systematic literature review

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J Software Evolu Process

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“…19 Failures include lack of quality 54 and the iceberg effect. 54 Problems include restrictions of academic publications 24,36 and protection of confidential information. 24 Further issues and challenges include lack of knowledge/experience of students when students are used for technology transfer, 35 technology that does not meet requirements, 34 cultural differences, 55 longevity of partnerships 40 and too many persons involved 24 involved in technology transfer which is related to organization.…”

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An industry survey on approaches, success factors, and barriers for technology transfer in software engineering

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One central aspect of software engineering research is the transfer of the proposed approaches into industrial practice. In the past, a number of technology transfer approaches and experiences from technology transfer projects in software engineering have already been reported. However, many researchers still struggle to get their research results noticed by practitioners. To investigate what is important to practitioners, we conducted a mixed‐methods study that provides us with reliable quantitative data as well as deeper insights from qualitative data. Our results show that there is a mismatch between industry professionals' needs and commonly proposed technology transfer approaches in the software engineering field. For instance, collaboration between industry and academia as well as participation in empirical evaluations is not deemed important from an industry point of view. In contrast, industry professionals emphasize the use of company‐specific pilot projects conducted by industry and the need for experts to be available in every phase of technology transfer.

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