1. Software support for TTOs
Vladimir Ćirić, Ivan Milentijević, Darko Tasić
Faculty of Electronic Engineering
University of Niš, Serbia

2. Outline Technology transfer and software support
Conceptual model of technology transfer
Software support
Users
Software components
System model
User registration strategies
Data acquisition and data search techniques
System implementation

3. TEMPUS-1-2009-1-RS-TEMPUS-JPHES
TEMPUS RS-TEMPUSJPHES ”National Platform for Knowledge Triangle in Serbia”.

4. Technology transfer and software support
Technology transfer is a complex multidisciplinary process of technology knowledge transfer
Process itself can vary from license transfers to joint investments and risk sharing.
Variations in process itself makes a software support a challenging task.

5. Conceptual model Technology Transfer Offices – TTOs should be able to
identify commercial potential of particular technology
develop a strategy for technology exploatation

6. Conceptual model
J. Bercovitz, M. Feldman, “Entpreprenerial Universities and Technology Transfer: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Knowledge-Based Economic Development”, The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, Vol. 31, No. 1,  , 2006.

7. Software support The goals: to promote TTOs,
registration of academic users and companies,
collecting the data related to the technologies and their commercial potential,
collecting the data related to the market potential,
support in the estimation of the commercial potential,
notification system.

8. The users
Large number of users should be registered, which can be categorized in two types:
academic institutions and
companies.
Large number of users puts the requirement for for designing and implementing automatic user registration process.
Registration of academic institutions is easier:
the number of the institutions is relatively small
the number of the institutions is slowly varying
there is a internal hierarchy, which strongly connects institutions together

9. Users’ roles

10. System’s components

11. User registration strategies
Academic institutions
Initial registration is done by the administrator
Invitation system
Academic institutions can invite other academic institutions to register
Companies
Companies will be registered ad-hoc, with addition that the data entered should be verified.
Automatic verification is difficult to implement due to the large number of institution types – this task is allocated to the administrator

12. User registration strategies
Academic institutions

13. User registration strategies
Companies

14. Data acquisition and data search
System offers interfaces for following tasks:
Technologies submission – technology description submission in the form of offer (academic inst.) i request (companies),
Search – data search ability of the system, as an on online service,
Delayed matching – specific approach of delayed data search, which describes the ability of the system to notify the event after an arbitrary amount of time.

15. Data search

16. System implementation
Technologies
Server
Operating system: Linux
Web server: Apache
Server-side scripting support: PHP
TTO portal
PHP/javascript/AJAX

17. System implementation

19. Company registration form

21. Academic intuition view

24. Administrator view

30. Concluding remarks
Software support for TTOs is designed and implemented.
User registration strategy has been developed.
The user registration process can be speed-up using proposed registration mechanisms that exploits relations that exists between academic users (authority, initiative, and invitation).
Software offers two data search strategies:
online search, which requires presence of the user on the system during the search
delayed search, which doesn’t require user to be logged-in while it is performed.