Technology Transfer: the case of Veneto Nanotech

Abstract

Through the years, the topic of technological transfer has gained importance among firms, universities and government due to the fast change that companies are called to answer if the wanted to survive. Each of the actors mentioned has to take an active role in providing its own competences with the aim of achieving innovative results and being competitive in the market. As a matter of fact, there is a general confluence of opinions that sustains that the economic future of a country is strongly affected by its capacity to combine entrepreneurship and innovation. For this reason, scientific research and innovation are more and more intertwined. The thesis aims at providing a theoretical background related to the transfer of knowledge, more specifically technology transfer, and a description of the structures that allows it. Subsequently, though the study of the failed case of an Italian company in the field, Veneto Nanotech, some recommendations will be drawn for the correct functioning of this process.