Technology Transfer on Trial: some Cases in the Piedmont Region

The process has been developed in three phases: 1) individuation and monitoring of firms with filtering method; 2) technological audits; 3) evaluation of the feasibility of technology transfer and activation R&D projects. Needs especially come out from firms of mechanical and automation industry. Even if the number of firms which need some kind of technological help is much wider, only 4.5 % of them signed agreement with Cnr Institutes. It is very difficult to start technology transfer actions mostly because there are problems to find well defined competencies and when the competencies are well established the time to realise the cooperation is generally quite long.