Nowadays, technology is known as the driving force of industrial and economic development of organizations and has a very broad meaning. Therefore, the development of new technologies is essential for success and competition in today’s world. Some organizations don’t have ability to produce and create the technologies due to lack of required capacity. Thus, they have no choice but to transfer technology to meet their needs and compete with similar organizations. Some of these achievements can be transferred in the form of technical know-how to other organizations.
In fact, technical know-how refers to a set of valuable scientific information and technical and engineering skills that includes the production characteristics of a product and its related processes and how to create and operate an industrial unit, and what is known as research, invention, and innovation achievements is the technical know-how gained from these activities that has been written and documented and can be used or transfer to others.
The process of technology or technical know-how transfer, includes a continuous chain of purposeful activities that form the process of knowledge transfer, skills, production methods and samples produced and this process can be implemented at different levels, each of which has different meanings. From knowledge transfer, which includes applied and developmental research, to machine and product transfer, each involves a nature of transfer that can be transferred formally and under license, engineering services, joint ventures, research and development contracts, consortium and …..
