Materials, Methods & Technologies, Volume 2, 2008

Abstract: To be successful and competitive in the globalizing and rapidly changing world, most organizations are under pressure to effectively either develop or transfer technology. Technology transfer is a managed process of conveying a technology from a point of origin to its potential users. Transferring technology from universities to private sectors results in economic development and welfare improvement of the issued country. But, for a sustainable development, the universities should also transfer the available technology until they can be enough sufficient to develop it internally. Especially, new-established universities like the foundation those recently established in Turkey need to transfer the technology in order to become a potential technology developer as being other old and long-established ones. Therefore, this paper represents a case study of how to transfer and adopt the technology from a private sector to Kadir Has University, as a newly established private university, which should be rational on investment decisions. This study is a work of technology strategy development through positioning-based approach, and includes three sections as follows: in the first part, a SWOT analysis, the issues of technology scanning are presented, in the second part, the selection of technology transfer method is included, in the final part, the criterion are determined to have a successful technology transfer process.