The cycle of ideas in research development and technology transfer

When people talks about research, development and technology transfer (RTD in short) and commercial industrial activities, it is quite usual to mix up objectives, resources and responsibilities. There is a growing opinion, spread by some public administrators and the media, that research groups at u...

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Autor: Oñate Ibáñez de Navarra, Eugenio|||0000-0002-0804-7095
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
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Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Operations research
Research Report CIMNE
Investigació operativa
Classificació AMS::90 Operations research, mathematical programming::90B Operations research and management science
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Investigació operativa
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Oñate Ibáñez de Navarra, Eugenio|||0000-0002-0804-7095
Operations research
Research Report CIMNE
Investigació operativa
Classificació AMS::90 Operations research, mathematical programming::90B Operations research and management science
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Investigació operativa
title_short The cycle of ideas in research development and technology transfer
title_full The cycle of ideas in research development and technology transfer
title_fullStr The cycle of ideas in research development and technology transfer
title_full_unstemmed The cycle of ideas in research development and technology transfer
title_sort The cycle of ideas in research development and technology transfer
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Oñate Ibáñez de Navarra, Eugenio|||0000-0002-0804-7095
author Oñate Ibáñez de Navarra, Eugenio|||0000-0002-0804-7095
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Operations research
Research Report CIMNE
Investigació operativa
Classificació AMS::90 Operations research, mathematical programming::90B Operations research and management science
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Investigació operativa
topic Operations research
Research Report CIMNE
Investigació operativa
Classificació AMS::90 Operations research, mathematical programming::90B Operations research and management science
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Investigació operativa
description When people talks about research, development and technology transfer (RTD in short) and commercial industrial activities, it is quite usual to mix up objectives, resources and responsibilities. There is a growing opinion, spread by some public administrators and the media, that research groups at universities and RTD centers must be "profitable". In few words, many persons would wish that research is funded with competitive funds or even loans (either public or private) and that the outcomes of the research get into the market rapidly, so that the profits from marketing the corresponding products will allow research groups to be financially self-sustaining. It is also usually argued that companies should increase their research activity and invest more resources in finding new discoveries. The humoristic limit of this situation is pretending that companies will produce Nobel laureates and that a research group would be among the 10 first positions in the ranking of economic organizations in a country. Certainly, both these situations are not impossible, although they are highly improbable. The opposite case is, unfortunately, more frequent, ie. that researchers compelled by their needs to guarantee the financial survival of their groups, abandon or considerably reduce their fundamental research activities, and that companies, confusing what is a Technical Department with an Innovation Department, consider themselves self-sufficient and underestimate or ignore the contact with the real RTD world.
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