Assessment of technology transfer office performance for value creation in higher education institutions

Autor: Agnė Vaiciukevičiūtė, Jelena Stankevičienė, Lidija Kraujalienė
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Economics and Econometrics
Knowledge management
Higher education
HF5001-6182
value creation
Technologijos / Technologies
Method
Redress
02 engineering and technology
Commercialization
Vertės kūrimas
Lietuva (Lithuania)
university
0502 economics and business
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

TOPSIS method
Business
TOPSIS metodas
TOPSIS
Competence (human resources)
Technology transfer
Value creation
business.industry
FARE method
05 social sciences
technology transfer office (TTO)
Universitetai / Universities
FARE metodas
Technology transfer office (TTO)
Business
Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)

020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
TOPSIS metodas
aukštojo mokslo institucija

Performance indicator
higher education institutions (HEI)
Technologijos perdavimas
business
050203 business & management
Zdroj: Journal of Business Economics and Management; Vol 18 No 6 (2017); 1063-1081
Journal of Business Economics and Management, Vol 18, Iss 6 (2017)
Journal of business economics and management 2017, Vol. 18, no. 6, p. 1063-1081.
ISSN: 1611-1699
2029-4433
Popis: Innovative activities, knowledge exchange, patenting and commercialization of know-how are crucial to the value creation process in higher education institutions and other research organizations. The article analyses the technology transfer performance indicators of value creation. The methodology to identify and assess the technology transfer activities with the highest impact on created value are proposed in the paper. The following research methods were invoked: FARE method, allowed to calculate weights of each technology transfer performance indicator, when TOPSIS method redress all different indicators’ results and rank universities. The application of the proposed methodology was based on empirical data collected from Lithuanian universities. The results of the study reveal the importance of science business partnerships, TTO competence and scientists’ trust of TTO, applying particular technology transfer policy. The obtained results would be beneficial for universities technology transfer policy formation to maximize universities created value.
Databáze: OpenAIRE