22 juillet 2010
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Gallo Riccardo et al., « Technological transfer: the RIDITT Programme », ERIEP - European Review of Industrial Economics and Policy, ID : 10670/1.uib1wr
The paper describes the preliminary outcomes of the Italian technology transfer (tt) policy instrument named riditt: Italian network for innovation and technology transfer to enterprises. As a first step some of the key and most recent theoretical and empirical works on tt policy are presented, in the wider framework of r&d public support, as well as a brief review of the trends in tt policies at national level. The paper then focuses on the results of two surveys, respectively on the innovation & tt centres operating in Italy, and on the most effective technologies available from public research for sme innovation. Both the analyses showed a populated and fast evolving system, even if affected by some weaknesses mainly related to the players’ under-sizing and to the lack of a general awareness on tt potential, on the research as well as on the industrial side. The surveys results were finally used to design a tailored scheme to promote research-industry cooperation. The early evidence from its application shows that a specific tt policy can afford those weaknesses, in the Italian case, but a deeper insight on the actual tt mechanism and the availability of tested impact evaluation methodologies and metrics, are needed.