Trasferimento tecnologico: analisi dei fruitori

This paper analyses the technology transfer (t.t.) in the nine Cnr research Institutes located in Piedmont, a high-industrialised region of the north-west of Italy. Some taxonomic criterions are used for classifying the t.t. In particularly we have two mains types of actions from research structures: A) Market oriented technology transfer split in: strict sense and wide sense of the term. B) Education oriented technology transfer (training and teaching activities that not generated "financial revenues"). It is measured with physical quantities (for example number of subjects, number of contacts, etc.). The correlation of outcomes shows that: if we consider as value of t.t. activity the "financial revenues" (market oriented technological transfer), the best Institutes are those operating in the technological area; instead, if we use, as indicator of t.t. activity, the number of external courses and the number of personnel trained (education oriented technological transfer), the ranking changes to favour of non technological research institute. Moreover spatial dynamics of technology transfer is investigated; in particularly we will verify if the propagation of technology follows the Hägerstrand proximity-effect and finally the causes when these effects do not function.