Desempeño de las oficinas de transferencia universitarias como intermediarias para la potencialización del mercado de conocimiento

Abstract

Purpose: This article explores the Triple Helix model and conceptualizes the role of Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) as intermediaries for the valuation and commercialization of the knowledge generated at universities and research centers. The result is a synthesis of the main research lines that have been examined during the last years. This paper also identifies new research avenues that have remained underexplored in the literature but represent an interesting starting point for future studies. Undoubtedly, these new lines would provide a better understanding of the real internal functioning of TTOs and its importance as an interface between the academic and the business world. Design/methodology/approach: Through a bibliometric study those papers published in journals indexed in the ISI Web of knowledge and Scopus have been identified, and because of their relevance and their international scope have been selected and included in this literature review. Findings: This paper allows us to in-depth in the Triple Helix model III and its performance when considering TTOs as knowledge brokers. Originality/value: Two are the main contributions that this article does to the existing scientific literature on technology transfer: 1) the identification and organization of the literature and approaches covered in previous studies, and 2) the identification of different research lines that have not yet been widely explored in the current literature, but that can help explain the performance of TTOs.Postprint (published version

Knowledge transfer and university-business relations: Current trends in research

“…3926/ic.990 In response to the weaknesses indicated, we believe that while it is true that, as technical offices, the transfer offices responsible for disseminating research results (TTOs) have the mission to promote and serve as a catalyst for relations resulting in the exchange of knowledge, thus facilitating its transfer though the provision of R&D services, the protection of knowledge through intellectual and industrial property rights and licenses, and the creation of technology-based businesses, it would be important for future research to analyze the behavior of these relations from the business towards the university (Olaya, Berbegal-Mirabent & Duarte, 2014).The perception of the results generated by KT on behalf of entrepreneurs should be examined in order to ensure greater dissemination. It would also be interesting to work on indicators that measure knowledge transfer and its economic results based on the identification of the variables involved.…”

Producción científica sobre el proceso de transferencia de conocimiento y tecnología en universidades: un análisis bibliométrico

“…Estas brechas de conocimiento se ven reflejadas en el relacionamiento entre la empresa y la universidad, dado que al generar los desarrollos tecnológicos que impactan la productividad empresarial, las universidades deben vincularse con la industria para aumentar sus capacidades, pero, esta relación requiere de un sistema o proceso formal de transferencia de conocimiento y tecnología, sin retrasos en los tiempos y etapas, sin problemas de financiamiento ni deficiencias en la comunicación, según lo demuestran estudios empíricos (Baek et al, 2007;Brandão et al, 2019;Chen & McQueen, 2010;Escalante-Ferrer et al, 2020;Miller et al, 2016;Munari et al, 2016;Reilly et al, 2019). Los problemas anteriores, asociados a la transferencia, tienen lugar dado que se ven involucrados muchos actores y componentes en el desarrollo del proceso (Olaya et al, 2014), también, por la dificultad de los propios actores para identificar las etapas y actividades que hacen parte del proceso de TCT y los desarrollos tecnológicos susceptibles de ser transferidos (Macias et al, 2018b).…”

Intermediation in Technology Transfer Processes in Agro-Industrial Innovation Systems: State of Art

“…Likewise, and based on the interaction between the university-industry-goverment and civil society actors that are part of the innovation systems [9], there are other barriers identified in the literature, which at a technological level hinder the implementation of activities of innovation-oriented to generate products and services with added value in the markets. One of the barriers is the asymmetry of information, which refers to the fact that both, the receiver and the sender in a technology transfer process do not have complete information on the technology developed and its exploitation possibilities to be able to reach a transfer agreement that satisfies the parties involved [10].…”