Publications

Research Summary

Technology and Knowledge Transfer in the Evolution of China’s Machine Industry

This work-in-progress provides a historical perspective on the role of foreign companies as providers of machinery equipment and facilitators of technology transfer in China from the last decade of the 19^th century to the early 1950s. The project focuses on... View Details

23 Mar 2018
HBS Seminar

Nila Bhakuni, Director of Technology Transfer at Dartmouth College

October 1993
Article

Developer-user Interaction and User Satisfaction in Internal Technology Transfer

By: D. A. Leonard-Barton and D. Sinha

Keywords: Relationships; Information Technology; Communication; Customer Satisfaction

2007
Case

Technology transfer and innovation at China's First Auto Works

By: Ian Larkin

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Technology; Auto Industry; China

February 2007
Supplement

Supplement to InfoVision (A): Technology Transfer at Georgia Tech

Keywords: Information Technology; Higher Education; Engineering; Education Industry; Atlanta

02 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Leveraging Transferable Skills

Shelby, Jasmyn and Katie (MBA 2019) describe their summer internship experiences. All three students utilized transferable skills from their previous work experience to transition into new industries; technology, retail and agribusiness.... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology; Technology

April 1987
Article

Joint Ventures, Technology Transfer and Technocratic Organization in Nationalist China

By: William C. Kirby

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Information Technology; Organizations; China

January 1989 (Revised March 1995)
Teaching Note

Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor & (Abridged), Teaching Note

By: Linda A. Hill

Teaching Note for (9-489-084) and (9-490-094). View Details

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Job Design and Levels

Mar 2011
Conference Presentation

Railroad Companies, Technology and Knowledge Transfer in Early 20th-Century China

By: Elisabeth Koll

2005
Dissertation

The Role of Immigrant Scientists and Entrepreneurs in International Technology Transfer

By: William R. Kerr

Keywords: Information Technology; Immigration; Entrepreneurship; Science; Trade

spring 2001
Article

Reinventing Public R&D: Patent Law and Technology Transfer from Federal Laboratories

By: Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner

Keywords: Research and Development; Law; Patents; Information Technology; Communication

April 2011
Teaching Note

Office of Technology Transfer - Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (TN)

By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai

Teaching Note for 611057. View Details

Keywords: Patents; Rights; Infrastructure; Multinational Firms and Management; Research and Development; Complexity; Commercialization; Technology Adoption; Motivation and Incentives; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Shanghai

Article

Making Healthcare Affordable for All: A Proposed Model for Transferring Technology

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

Keywords: Information

16 Apr 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Gray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing

Keywords: by Romana L. Autrey & Francesco Bova

Article

Modes of Technology Transfer as a Function of Position in the Research-Development-Technical Service Spectrum

By: Michael Tushman and T. J. Allen

Keywords: Information Technology; Communication; Research and Development

2025
Working Paper

Transferability MATTRs: Towards Understanding Antecedents of Strategic Licensing

By: Dafna F. Bearson and Maria P. Roche

This paper examines the antecedents of firms’ decisions to license intellectual property (IP). We propose a conceptual framework emphasizing two critical factors: (1) transferability, which we define as the ease of moving knowledge embodied in inventions across firm... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Intellectual Property; Value Creation

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2020
Article

Inconvenient Truths: Interpreting the Origins of the Internet

By: Shane Greenstein

A conventional economic narrative provides intellectual underpinnings for governments to subsidize research and development ("R&D") that coordinates risky research to benefit many in society. This essay compares this narrative with the origins and invention of the... View Details

Keywords: Lead Users; Technology Transfer; Internet and the Web; History; Analysis; Research and Development; Governance; Information Technology; Policy

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July 2016
Article

Economic Implications of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Embryo Transfer Guidelines: Healthcare Dollars Saved by Reducing Iatrogenic Triplets

By: Malinda S. Lee, Brady T. Evans, Ariel Dora Stern and Mark D. Hornstein

Objective: To estimate the national cost savings resulting from reductions in higher-order multiple (HOM) live births (defined as three or more fetuses), following the initial publication of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) guidelines on ET in... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Cost Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry