I’d like to about hear your experiences with technology transfer. I’m addressing this request to the nowEurope contributors circle, many of whom I have only recently met. My experience has mainly been with small, entrepreneurial startups in Internet media.
However, I do recall that some fifteen years ago when I used a text interface to navigate the Internet through the Siemens Data-P network I discovered a Hungarian professor who had a working copy of Mosiac, the first primitive web browser. His student later told me the professor had refused to post a copy of Mosiac on the open university for others to use.
Back then the power was in hording information. Today, the power is in helping information move efficiently to the right place.
I realize that many things have changed in fifteen years, and yet my experience is that human habits of thinking are the most difficult to change. I regularly meet talented, well educated graduates of Hungarian’s academic institutions. However, the only innovations I see are those emerging from the private sector.
I confess, I am a technology transfer newbie. I understand the basic concepts and I’m learning the jargon. I’m finding my way around, but I don’t have first-hand experience with technology transfer. How does it work?
I’ve been doing my homework and what I can see far is that technology transfer isn’t working very well in Europe yet. In April, the European Commission “relaunched” the European Research Area (ERA). Only last month the Commission announced the “Ljubljana Process” which they hope will lead to better exploitation of Europe’s research potential and the creation of a genuine European Research Area (ERA).
Euractive has a full page announcement about the Ljubljana Process.
Here’s a full page on Euractive describing recent developments in technology transfer.
So far all of this just is theory to me. I would enjoy hearing real-life experiences of how this is working or, at least what is being done to fill in the gaps.
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