CHAPTER 11
OPEN INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
THE MAJOR SHIFT
From Labor- and capital-intensive industries to
knowledge- and technology-based economies
THE PARADOX OF OPENNESS
the creation of innovations often requires
openness, but the commercialization of
innovations requires protection
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
process by which technology developed for one
purpose is employed either in a different
application or by a new user.
MODELS OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
LICENSING
technology owner receiving a license fee in
return for access to the technology
SCIENCE PARK MODEL
to develop an industrial area or district close to
an established centre of excellence, often a
university
INTERMEDIARY AGENCY MODEL
they act as the intermediary between
companies seeking and companies offering
technology.
DIRECTORY MODEL
During the explosion of interest in technology
transfer during the 1980s, many new companies
sprang up in an attempt to exploit interest in
the subject
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER PARTNERSHIP MODEL
the teaching company scheme aims to transfer
technology between universities and small
companies
FERRET MODEL
qualified scientists and engineers who would
ferret around for interesting defense
technology that could have wider commercial
opportunities.
HIRING SKILLED EMPLOYEES
one of the most effective according to many
research managers
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER UNITS
established industrial liaison units and
technology transfer units to bring in technology
from outside and/or to find partners to help
exploit in-house developments
RESEARCH CLUBS
tries to bring companies together with common
interests, in particular research areas.
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA)
offers access to space research in virtually all
fields of science and technology. achieved using
a combination of three models: the
intermediary agency model, the directory
model and the ferret model.
CONSULTANCY
This area has experienced rapid growth from a
non-existent base in the early 1980s to a multi-
billion-dollar industry today
RA 10055 Philippine Technology
Transfer Act
RA 2067 Science Act
RA 3850 Philippine Inventors
Incentive Act
RA 7459 Investors and Invention
Incentives Act
NOT-INVENTED-HERE (NIH) SYNDROME
the tendency of a project group of stable
composition to believe that it possesses the
monopoly of knowledge in its field, leading it to
reject new ideas from outsiders to the likely
detriment of its performance