Technology Transfer in a Changing Environment

Abstract

In light of the crucial economic importance of effective technology transfer from higher education to business and industry, the interaction of higher education institutions with their wider environments has received much attention. In this article, the authors focus on the essentially iterative approach towards achieving the most effective modes of interaction, based on hands-on experience and in response to the current dramatic changes that are taking place on the world's economic map, in particular sociopolitical change in Eastern Europe, the growing strength of the Pacific Basin nations, and the envisaged post-Maastricht consolidation of the European Community.