Renewable Energy Technology: Generation and Transfer

Renewable Energy Technology: Generation and Transfer

Renewable Energy is important to each and every country in the world. Unlike other technologies the cooperation between countries in the field of renewable energy is of more priority to competition. In other fields the generation of technology may take place in one country and the transfer of that technology may be completely prevented such as the case with technology generation in the fields related to armament.

1-Technology transfer covers a wide range of interactions between universities, academia, and other research institutes on one side and industry, small business organisms and other end-users on the opposite side. It comprises the publication of research, the delivery of seminars, faculty consultancy, and transfer of  skills and knowledge. Novel ideas and inventions are conceived of every day within the laboratories and classrooms of different universities, research institutes, and R&D departments in companies and corporations, but the real challenge is moving these innovations out into the mainstream of society where they can benefit the public good and incur money that can be re-supplied into the research stream.

2-Who Generates Technology

Technology is generated by researchers or research groups in universities, academia, and other research institutes in addition to R&D departments in the industry and other end users organisms.

3-How Technology Generation Takes Place

There are several approaches for migration of appropriate academic or university technology to industry. The most important source of successful university tech transfer, usually between an industry’s R&D staff and university personnel takes place via personal contacts between university inventors and industry. A frequent example comprises company R&D staff who happens to be familiar with the work of a particular university research group and finds the involved technology suitable for product development. Thus, establishing contacts in universities (either with inventors themselves or through alumni who may now be working in industry) represents a significant starting point for successful technology transfer. By establishing and nurturing such a relationship, a company may develop an ongoing awareness of the university research activity while the research group gains an efficient channel for marketing new technologies. This results into an appreciable shift to more applied research.

Developing a relationship with relevant research experts in universities may begin by establishing personal contacts in universities during related technical conferences, or by building a longer history of interaction with faculty by industry sponsorship through research grants and contracts. Graduate students or university alumni who have completed their degrees and have taken positions in industry are another major source of researchers’ contacts.

Patent searches and a routine pursuit of available university technologies present another important source for tech transfer leads. Technology transfer offices generally offer online resources which the industry may use to search for licensing opportunities related to a given business. After identifying a targeted technology a company may directly contact the appropriate licensing officers and faculty members. 

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