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Introduction
- The majority of researchers in Egypt are working
individually and they are unfamiliar with the real needs/problems of
industry in their areas of interest because the academic culture does
not see technology transfer and commercialization as “legitimate” activities.
- In the mean time, the private sector and business community
have not yet promoted to the level of ambitions in view of technical
facilities and available technologies.
- On the contrary, in the world, the academic and business
worlds have different ideas about technology transfer: different short-
and long-term visions, different expectations about how resources should
be used, and different priorities when it comes to meeting shared
targets. The aim was to find ways to improve the mechanisms for
transferring the results of R&D performed at research institutes to
the private sector.
- Therefore, we should change the methodologies of R&D -
industry interaction aiming at providing industry with
ready-to-implement technologies as well as helping the industrial sector
to identify the best way to collaborate with them in order to create
strong, coherent and sustainable relationship. This challenge could not
be achieved without creating offices for marketing and commercialization
of the R&D deliverables, to promote the process of technology
transfer while keeping the IPR of the inventors as well as support
technology innovation and creating grants and international cooperation
that help in developing the Egyptian industry.
- For these reasons, CMRDI perfectly fits with the
requirements and the objectives of the initiative of the Egyptian
Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) to help us to
establish the Technology Innovation Commercialization Office (TICO) which
includes;
- Technology Transfer Office (TTO),
- Grants and International Cooperation Office (GICO), and
- Technology Innovation Support Center (TISC).
- In CMRDI we strongly believe in that, establishing TICO will
represent a real and concrete chance to strengthen the relation and
enhance the effective cooperation between CMRDI and industry and
business community in Egypt.
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