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Technology Transfer — from Purpose to Practice

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It is submitted that technology transfer between academia and industry is not a matter of academia telling industry how to do things better, but of industry better understanding its own needs and being better able to evaluate academic work.

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  1. Malcolm Associates Ltd., Savoy Hill, London, UK

    Bob Malcolm

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  1. Franco-Polish School of New Information and Communication Technology, 60-854, Poznań, Poland

    Janusz Górski

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Malcolm, B. (1993). Technology Transfer — from Purpose to Practice. In: Górski, J. (eds) SAFECOMP ’93. SAFECOMP 1993. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2061-2_17

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