Many technology transfer arrangements involve universities and it is now relatively commonplace for universities in the United Kingdom to have technology transfer offices to manage various aspects of the development and exploitation of the technology developed by a university’s academics and students.
Technology transfer offices typically either form part of a department within the university itself or are a company set up by the university for exploiting the technology developed by its academics. Even with the company approach, UK universities have adopted various technology transfer models. For example, some university technology