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Learning Objectives
1. Recognize the importance of the concept of technology/knowledge
transfer with respect to innovation management
2. Provide a summary of the process of technology/knowledge
transfer
3. Examine the various models of technology transfer
4. Assess the importance of itnernal organization factors and how
they affect inward technology transfer
5. Explain why a ‘receptive’ environment is necessary for technology
transfer
6. Identify the different barriers to technology transfer
7. Recognize how tacit knowledge links technology transfer and
innovation
Can be transferred to
Types of companies
Innovators: The first company to adopt a new
idea
Initiators: The firms that adopted the idea soon
after the innovators
Fabians: The firms who adopted the idea only
after its utility was widely acknowledged in the
industry
Drones: The last firms to adopt new ideas
Individual
Continual flow of
tacit and explicit Group
knowledge
Organization