Technology transfer, the connection between research, innovation and market

Abstract

In a scenario that frames the relationship between Technology and Society according to multiple points of view, technology transfer is distinguished by fostering permeability between sectors and the ability to adapt several systems from other productive areas to a “target” one. Further radical innovations are developed starting with the transfer of basic technologies and materials from outside sectors to a given one. Production processes and products are significantly transformed from their original asset through adaptation and reworking actions in which the trace of technology, in its original “configuration”, is lost. Research today is measured on the real planes of its applicability in such contexts as problem solving, risk prevention, and scenario formulation. In contexts where science and technology either reverse or integrate their roles and effects, the future of research and technology transfer looks uncertain, in an increasingly performative world where the value of critical thinking and measurability of research outcomes becomes significant.