How does one find a job without a language, or rent an apartment without a job or a credit history, or transfer professional skills and credentials that have lost their context?
I have greatly enjoyed my experience in technology transfer, and I would encourage recent graduates who are unsure of what they want as a career path to consider working in the field, for it may not only be the start of a career as a technology transfer professional, it may also be a stepping stone to new business opportunities.
First, researchers and technology transfer professionals needed to improve their so-called transferable skills (effective communication, decision making, teamwork, leadership, time management, etc).. Secondly, to commercialize research results, it was necessary to develop international networks.
These ideas and more will now be forwarded to Knowledge London, the London network of knowledge transfer professionals, university incubators and other organisations that can take them forward.
IP and technology transfer professionals come from many backgrounds.
From then onward, the technology transfer professionals will take over the process of commercializing your invention.
More than merely patenting discoveries, technology transfer professionals combine science, business, regulatory processes, and law.
Technology transfer professionals also provide insight into patent law and can help professors navigate intellectual property (IP) issues.
They even transfer professionals away from African countries with economic or political strife to places where they can be productive.11 Facilitating these short-term, project-based stays have been successful.
Instead, we argue that technology transfer professionals are active participants in the construction of the innovation and assign value by 'imagining' the end product in its 'context of use'.
Set up by the U.K.'s Cambridge/MIT Institute in 2002, Praxis is now an independent, not-for-profit company that runs tech-transfer courses throughout the U.K. Praxis is about to enter a strategic alliance with UNICO, which represents technology transfer professionals.
