This article analyses to what degree the innovation centres (ICs) in West Germany have up to now been able to encourage technology transfer between universities and enterprises. Through a series of interviews conducted by the author in ICs and enterprises he concludes that there is reason to believe that technology transfer by universities is positively influenced less by the IC itself than by its effect as a symbol of a ‘climatic’ change in the region.
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