Intermediation and information asymmetries in technology transfer between university and industry

Abstract

Today, universities and governments are making efforts to allocate resources to be implemented in research and technological development processes that seek to have an impact in terms of innovation in the markets. However, it has been identified that there are barriers such as information asymmetry, which hinder the development of technology transfer processes between the university and industry, either because the owner or inventor of the technology does not transmit the key and relevant information about its invention to a third party, which in this case would be the businessman or industrialist who could acquire it, who in turn can also limit the transparency of the market information that the owner of the technology needs to know in order to coincide in the formalization of an agreement of transfer of the technology in question. Faced with this reality, it has been found that there is a third key actor in these technology transfer processes, these are the intermediary agents of innovation, who from their nature can be seen as moderators of the aforementioned information asymmetries. In this sense, the search for information related to the aforementioned barrier and the intervention of intermediary agents in the technology transfer processes has been carried out, finding that they can influence depending on the circumstances where the process is generated. For this work, the Scopus database has been used, and a set of variables ha s been proposed that relate the topics under study and that can be used in the establishment of action scenarios where the intermediary agent of innovation intervenes in technology transfer processes.