Viewed from a wide context, technology transfer is everything in the process of achieving the deployment of technology, from basic research and development (R&D), to prototypes, production and finally to sales, installation and operations.
The complete technology transference process goes from the holder of the technology Intellectual Property (IP) to the technology end-user in the market. The following image shows it:
Within this process there are two stages where the technology is “traded”: The “IP market” and the “end-user market”. The first is the core of IP licensing, and the second one is in the field of the market opened to everyday consumption.
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