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Technology transfer began when, as we emerged as a distinct artifact-creating species, the knowledge of our inventions spread from neighbor to neighbor. Today, more than ever before, the future of nations, economies, industries, healthcare, education and other key human activities is profoundly affected by the effectiveness of that process - a process that has become highly complex and at times spectacularly successful, at times replete with failures or disappointments. That complexity has led to questioning the very term “transfer,” as conveying too simplified and linear a conception of the process [3].
An earlier version of this paper was published as “Technology Transfer: A Socio-Technological Paradigm” in Development and Transfer of Industrial Technology, O.C.C. Lin and Y.C. Yang (Editors), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1994 (by permission).
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Bugliarello, G. (1996). Technology Transfer: A Paradigm. In: Bugliarello, G., Pak, N.K., Alferov, Z.I., Moore, J.H. (eds) East-West Technology Transfer. NATO ASI Series, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0151-3_1
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