The Five Characteristics Of Technology Transfer

Clearly, the technology transfer is mainly influenced and constrained by the introductory systems and incentive policies, security, civilization and honesty, transportation and geographical conditions, living environment, culture similarity and linguistic affinity, and so on (Shin, 2013). They are interrelated and interdependent while overlapping each other, and they are arranged in ascending levels of importance from the lowest level to the highest level. In other words, factors influencing on the effects of the technology transfer would be different, subject to the industry, technological characteristics, and the relationship between providers and clients. Moreover, those effects of technology transfer that are evaluated could depend on recipients’ satisfaction, overall firms’ performance and satisfaction with the technology transfer procedure (Tan, 1996). Firms are key players in this development process and they must be aware of many factors before beginning technology transfer, such as where the technology and the company are in their respective lifecycles (Tahmooresnejad et al., 2011). In this section, we are going to review some important factors that could play

In reviewing the literature related to appropriate characteristics of technology five main characteristics can be known as: Life cycle of technologies, complexity of technology, rapid changes, the available market size, and value added of technology. These characteristics have a significant impact on the appropriate transfer of technology (Winkelbach, and Walter, 2015; Gupta and Govindarajan, 2000). Although, a few studies have focused on relationship between characteristics of technology and technology transfer, Abdul Wahab et al. (2011) and Minbaeva (2007) show that characteristics of technology have significant relationship with technology