Vademecum for innovation through knowledge transfer: Continuous training in universities, enterprises and industries

Abstract

In the current work we present a first state of the art in technology transfer from the university-public-private environment to the enterprises and industries in Spain and Italy and vice versa. In it are described the main causes that boost and damage that two-way relationship. Additionally, a first vademecum is established to avoid those environments where technology transfer is either nonexistent or difficult to carry out because of the human factors this process entails. This short guide allows one to detect easily through the Internet whether we are in a real or false technology transfer process. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011.