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Technology Transfer and Change Management

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Technology Transfer:

Technology transfer is a broad set of processes covering the flows of know-how, experience, and equipment among different stakeholders such as Governments, private sector entities, financial institutions, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and research/educational institutions (IPCC 2000b). Technology is the transfer of scientific knowledge to life (Özçatalbaş 2014). It is very important to be capable of producing technology, because of global competition and for the welfare of society. Technology transfer provides significant advantages for the owner of the technology. Accordingly, technology transfer refers to the competitiveness of countries or firms on a global scale.

Innovation:

As a concept, innovation is described as first time perception of an opinion or an application which has not been encountered in the past by a person. Thus, innovation is a subjective concept; everything seen, heard, or perceived by a person carries characteristic of...

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  1. Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey

    Orhan Özçatalbaş

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  1. European School of Sustainability Science and Research, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, The University of Passo Fundo, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökçin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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    Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari

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Özçatalbaş, O. (2020). Technology Transfer and Change Management. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95675-6_53

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