TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND ITS APPLICATION IN COOPERATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND BUSINESS

Cooperation management, knowledge transfer, literature review, technology transfer, technology transfer institution, university´s research commercialization. This paper deals with the topic of technology and knowledge transfer. It is a literature review explaining terms such as cooperation management, technology and knowledge transfer, technology transfer institutions, and university´s research commercialization. It also describes ways how university as a research organization provides commercialization of intellectual property developed on premises of a university. Benefits from participating in technology and knowledge transfer are defined for each group, i.e. research organization (or university), researcher, business and region