The Analysis of Conceptual Theoretical Approaches to the Problem of Technology Transfer in Foreign Universities
https://doi.org/10.15826/umpa.2021.01.005
Abstract
The article overviews the existing models of technology transfer, including those within foreign universities, and highlights the most relevant ones that can be used by Russian universities in the post-COVID-19 conditions. The study should allow the university-based transfer centers to choose the model which is mostly suitable for their situation, and to include elements that will help them to maximize the efficiency of their activities. The existing centers will be able to make changes in their activity in order to update and/or to transform it in accordance with the changed conditions. For the management personnel of the university, the article also provides practical recommendations on managing technology transfer centers. The authors reveal the key functioning elements of various technology transfer models, which can be used by management personnel to design technology transfer centers based on Russian universities. The possible result of the stakeholders’ getting to know this study might be their creating and implementing regulations to govern the technology transfer centers’ activities; forming a personnel reserve; advanced existing personnel training and multi-competence teams’ creating; forming a flexible budgetary policy, as well as a policy of values, for the technology transfer center to function within.
About the Authors
N. E. OvchinnikovaRussian Federation
Nataliia E. Ovchinnikova – PhD (Economics), independent researcher
D. G. Lazarenko
National Research Technological University «MISiS»
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Denis G. Lazarenko – Deputy Director, Institute of Economics & Industrial Management named after V. A. Romenets
4 Leninsky prospect, Moscow, 119049
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Ovchinnikova N.E., Lazarenko D.G. The Analysis of Conceptual Theoretical Approaches to the Problem of Technology Transfer in Foreign Universities. University Management: Practice and Analysis. 2021;25(1):62-82. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.15826/umpa.2021.01.005
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