Organizational Factors Influencing The Productivity of Academic Technology Transfer Centers
Subject Areas : Generalhojjatollah hajhosseini 1 , ghasem ramezanpournargesi 2 , samine soltanzadeh 3
1 - سازمان پژوهش هاي علمي و صنعتي ايران. تهران،ايران
2 - سازمان پژوهش هاي علمي و صنعتي ايران. تهران،ايران
3 - Tehran University
Keywords: Organizational factors, productivity, university technology transfer centers,
Abstract :
Since organizarional aspects and specifications directly influence the productivity of academic technology transfer centers, this study investigates organizational factors influencing the productivity of academic technology transfer centers. The statistical population of this study includes professors at University of Tehran's Faculty of Engineering with a scientific and executive experience in technology transfer. This sudy applies forcastive assessment approach. In this regard, a number of experts were requested to discover the factors influencing productivity of academic technology transfer centers based on factors investigated in literature. Of all the questionnaires distributed, 126 questionnaires were collected. Data analysis was performed applying One-tailed Mean Test and Friedman Test using SPSS 22. The results show that technology transfer centers' organizational structure, number of employees, age and previous experience, reward systems, office space and available resources are all the factors influencing the productivity of academic technology transfer centers.
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