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Capacity Building in Technology Transfer

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Since the early 2000’s the European Commission has supported technology transfer as a means to facilitate the transfer of knowledge to enhance innovation and the competitiveness of the EU economy. This support has taken a number of forms. Firstly the Commission has convened a number of groups of experts and issued a number of policy statements drawing attention to the importance of improving linkages between public researchers and industry and regulations and guidelines facilitating knowledge and technology transfer from the former to the latter. Secondly the Commission has funded a number of projects to improve the capacity of public research organisations and higher education institutes performing research to engage in more technology transfer. Finally the Commission has, through its funding programme Horizon 2020 and its rules for participation; respectively created instruments to fund and finance technology transfer and facilitated the claiming of patent costs as eligible costs in its framework research programmes.

See https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/.

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    Massimiliano Granieri

  2. MITO Technology, Milan, Italy

    Andrea Basso

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McCutcheon, P. (2019). European Commission Initiatives Supporting Technology Transfer. In: Granieri, M., Basso, A. (eds) Capacity Building in Technology Transfer. SxI - Springer for Innovation / SxI - Springer per l'Innovazione, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91461-9_2

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