Perspectives on Innovation and Technology Transfer

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2015
Mikus Dubickis, Elīna Gaile-Sarkane

In an effort to understand development of economics, research fields such as innovation and technology transfer have emerged. Growing competition determines the importance of innovation and technology transfer. The purpose of the Paper is to identify qualitative relationships between innovation and technology transfer. The review of innovation, technology and technology transfer definitions and focus group discussion were used to formulate the research question: What are the relationships between innovation and technology transfer? The qualitative content analysis research approach was used to analyze the obtained data from the focus group discussion. The systematic search of scientific literature was performed to collect the existing review papers on innovation and technology transfer classifications. Another focus group discussion was conducted to confirm the obtained results. This research shows that three different kinds of relationships between innovation and technology transfer may be identified. Perspective of innovation and technology transfer overlap may be considered as the dominant within a society.

Atslēgas vārdi
Innovation, Technology Transfer, Systematic review, Perspectives, Relationships, Synthesis, Typology, Taxonomy, Process, Product
DOI
10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.11.512
Hipersaite
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187704281505867X

Dubickis, M., Gaile-Sarkane, E. Perspectives on Innovation and Technology Transfer. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015, Vol.213, 965.-970.lpp. ISSN 1877-0428. Pieejams: doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.11.512

Publikācijas valoda
English (en)