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Technology transfer in economic periphery: Emerging patterns and policy challenges

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  • Margit Kirs
  • Veiko Lember
  • Erkki Karo

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Drawing from case studies from the Estonian biotechnology sector, we demonstrate that a focus on the classic formal approach to technology transfer does not fully capture the dynamics and challenges of technology transfer in a peripheral context. We focus on biotechnology because this is an area where entrepreneurial orientation of knowledge institutions and formal models of technology transfer are highly visible. Our case studies show that the knowledge generation and the diffusion contexts of peripheral economies can create barriers to technology transfer that conventional policy approaches do not address. 基于爱沙尼亚生物技术部门的案例研究,我们证明,聚焦于技术转移的经典正式方法并不能完全解释边缘国家情境中技术转移的动态和挑战。我们聚焦于生物技术,因为这个领域中知识机构的创业导向和技术转移的正式模式都是清晰可见的。我们的案例研究表明,边缘经济体的知识创造及扩散情境能为技术转移带来阻碍,这些阻碍是不被传统政策方法所解决的。 A partir de estudios de caso del sector de la biotecnología de Estonia, demostramos que un enfoque en el enfoque formal clásico de la transferencia de tecnología no capta completamente la dinámica y los desafíos de la transferencia de tecnología en un contexto periférico. Nos enfocamos en la biotecnología porque esta es un área donde la orientación empresarial de las instituciones del conocimiento y los modelos formales de transferencia de tecnología son muy visibles. Nuestros estudios de caso muestran que la generación de conocimiento y los contextos de difusión de las economías periféricas pueden crear barreras a la transferencia de tecnología que los enfoques de políticas convencionales no abordan.

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  • Margit Kirs & Veiko Lember & Erkki Karo, 2021. "Technology transfer in economic periphery: Emerging patterns and policy challenges," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 38(6), pages 677-706, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:38:y:2021:i:6:p:677-706
    DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12437
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