Technology transfer eneral Concepts: Part III

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INTRODUCTION PART III

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1. SETTING UP COMPANIES

2. TECHNOLOGICAL ALLIANCE

3. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

4. ACCESO TO TECHNOLOGY BY COMPANIES

5. TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE PROVIDERS

6. UNIVERSITIES

7. RESEARCH CENTERS

8. TECHNOLOGY CENTERS

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10. HOW TO WORK WITH TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS


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9. COMPANIES



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1. SETTING UP COMPANIES

Concept

Setting up a company is a mechanism that is increasingly being used by universities for the commercial exploitation of technology or knowledge.

For practical purposes, there is no need to set up a company to exploit technology whenever you seek university support.

Certain technologies can be shared directly by a company that has been created by university research departments in order for a peer ralationship to exist with another company, improving the time needed and the ease with which the relationship is established.


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2. TECHNOLOGICAL ALLIANCE

A technological alliance is a way whereby several deifferent parties or partners collaborate by sharing assets, risks, costs, profits, skills and resources revolving around the development and/or exploitation of technology and knowledge.

It can consist of setting up a joint venture, with collaboration in the form of specific transfers of skills among partners, or the setting up of a R&D collaboration consortium (participation in public R&D programmes...).

Although these typee of collaboratione can be contemplated in some of the earlier classifications, it is useful to separate them because the essential concept residing in them is that of formalising a very close and intense collaboration between parties.

Technological alliances tend to involve more aspects besides those involving technology (commercial, management...).


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3. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

Although this is not very common, the merger of a company with a technology and knowledge-intensive organisation (or its acquisition) is one of the fastest and most effective ways of accessing technology as it involves the transfer of a complete company including all its tangible assets (laboratories, buildings...) and intangible ones (intellectual property, human and business resources).


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4. ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGIES BY COMPANIES I

Companies can use prorietary technology, shared technology or third party technology


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4. ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGIES BY COMPANIES II

Proprietary technology:

Technology is developed by the company, either by itself or subcontracting parts to third parties companies or institutions, but always keeping ownership and control.

These are companies with sufficient dimensions and resources that allow them to have their own research, technical development and innovation (RD&I) departments under different names: engineering, design department, product development, business development or even R&D.

Shared technology:

The technology is developed in collaboration with one or more external partners, who provide proprietary knowledge and technology in order to bring about new technology whose ownership is shared by all in an agreed proportion.

These are referred to as technological collaborations or, in their maximum expression, as technological alliances.

Third party technology:

The technolgy is developed by third parties with no relation to the company and who proceed to provide it or license it for use under particular conditions.


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5. TECHNOLOGICAL AND KNOWLEDGE PROVIDER


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6. UNIVERSITIES

Universities are one of the pillars for knowledge generation and dissemination in our society.

These are usually public or private non-profit organisations whose main aims are education, research and transfer.

In Spain and almost all developed countries, companies have universities in the vicinity of their location, and therefore, without knowing, have a nearby technology provider in the university of their city or region.


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7. RESEARCH CENTERS

Research centres, typically known as public research institutes, are insititutions that exist purely for research and, together with universities, form the core of the public system of scientific research and technical development in Spain.

There are currently seven large research centres under the authority of different ministries, with facilities in many parts of Spain, mainly in collaboration with universities.

The most important of these is the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).


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8. TECHNOLOGY CENTERS

Technology centres are public or private institutes that undertake research, develop technology and offer technical services – their strong point – directed at the business sector.

They tend to focus on industrial sectors that are both vertical (food processing, automotive, construction...) and horizontal (IT, environment, optics...)

You most likely have a technology centre near your company as they are near in number to universities and they are found throughout Spain.


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9.COMPANIES

These are companies with the capacity for undertaking research and developing technology that is tailor made to suit their clients.

Occasionally there are companies that have decided to create an area parallel to business activity in order to generate returns from the knowledge and technological experience they have accumulated over the years.


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