ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 provides an overview of salient aspects of the technology transfer evolution, with particular emphasis on that from university to society. It also identifies the missing links between research and industry (human factor and impact finance), highlighting the role that TTOs play in closing this gap, and the drivers of the tech-transfer as an advanced process. It also elucidates reasons as to why the entire tech-transfer process centres on the “human factor”, and advances the idea that job satisfaction can be a powerful motivator for this rare and highly qualified category of professionals (or technology transfer managers, TTMs), other than being in receipt of pay at full market rate and outstanding working conditions.
