| Abstract [eng] |
Nowadays the expansion of globalization and international market forces companies to innovate in order to remain competetive. Research & Development (R&D) activities have become a key success factor for the leading companies all over the world and appears as a priority tool used for development among regions. Since 1980, when Bayh-Dole act was signed, universities were empowered to commercialize their inventions and recently play a key role in delivering innovations to the market. The object of this paper is a technology transfer model development, which could improve newly established technology transfer offices (TTO) performance. This has been achieved, first, by analyzing various of technology transfer models and its success factors. Secondly, through the analysis of an empirical research results, which indentified critical success factors in a newly estabslished TTO while adapating South Korea‘s best practise in order to improve it. This Master‘s final thesis consists of two major parts: theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part deals with the technology transfer models and TTO success factors analysis, while the second part empirically examinates success factors in a highly experienced and in a newly established TTO. The empirical part presents a research methodology and the results of data analysis. The results of the analysis showed, that the newly established TTO faces challanges in reducing burocratism for the researchers, has a lack of a long-term marketing and university‘s commercialization strategies. The research also indentified that in order to improve TTO resposiveness and flexibility while interacting with businesses it should become partly independent from the university. Science commercialization alternatives in university were also indentified as a harmful factor for TTO performance. |
