Measures of technology transfer effectiveness: key dimensions and differences in their use by sponsors, developers and adopters

Willingness-to-engage in technology transfer in industry–university collaborations

“…Harvey (1987) also explains that TT is a process of making profit from other business. Spann, Adams, and Sounder (1995) indicate that many scholars present conceptual, mathematical, economic, communication-based, strategic marketing, and integrative models to measure TT's processes, outcomes, and performances; however, the results are usually deficient in the standardization and agreement, even though these models capture a variety of perspectives. These differences in perspectives, goals, and roles may contribute to the measuring of transferring progress, final success, and overall effectiveness.…”

Establishing a high-technology knowledge transfer network: The practical and symbolic roles of identification

“…Affective commitment was assessed with three items (α = .86) from a well-established scale (Allen & Meyer, 1990). We adapted five items from Spann, Adams and Souder (1995) to measure firm-level knowledge-transfer benefits (α = .97). Given the problems in measuring relational benefits noted in Morgan and Hunt (1994, p.…”

Intra-company technology transfer in a multinational industrial firm

“…This is because "information transfers may be nearly instantaneous between [sender and receiver] while.., process technologies often require years to generate tangible results" (Spann, Adams, and Souder 1995). The literature suggests that "no true technology transfer [occurs] until the technical knowledge received from the [sender] has been put into effective use by the receiver" (Sridharan 1994).…”

“…Organizations utilizing a technology pull strategy would likely benefit most from the evaluation of market or business impact measures. Those using technology push might value issues such as the amount of technology made available for transfer, the time spent transferring it, or the number of people requesting it (Spann, Adams, and Souder 1995).…”