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Fostering technology transfer through industry—university cooperation: A practitioner's view at MIT

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The traditional relationship between academia and industry in the United States is no longer an effective vehicle for technology development and deployment. The infrastructure of research, development, and implementation (RD&I) in our country must change in order to achieve better technology transfer. To address this issue, MIT continues to develop newer, more productive modes of cooperation with industry that effectively use the transfer sciences to develop and transfer technology. This paper describes various modes of cooperation between MIT and industry, ranging from industrysponsored single-researcher projects to formal organizations, like the Manufacturing Institute.

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  1. The Manufacturing Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

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Sharon, A. Fostering technology transfer through industry—university cooperation: A practitioner's view at MIT. Empirica 21, 285–296 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01697410

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