Technology Transfer

“I Love Innovation” was the fitting motto with which the DESY Innovation Village was officially inaugurated on Valentine’s Day, in the presence of DESY’s Board of Directors and representatives of the federal and local Hamburg governments. It will offer DESY start-ups offices, workshops and laborator more

Wyatt Technology announced that it has completed the acquisition of Superon GmbH, a manufacturer of Field Flow Fractionation (FFF) systems. Production, research and product development has been transferred to Wyatt’s Santa Barbara, CA headquarters which will enable the company to further enhance the more

Nanoparticle manufacturing, the production of material units less than 100 nanometers in size (100,000 times smaller than a marble), is proving the adage that “good things come in small packages.” Today’s engineered nanoparticles are integral components of everything from the quantum dot nanocrystal more

Sustainability, Vol. 10, Pages 2085: Sustainability of University Technology Transfer: Mediating Effect of Inventor’s Technology Service Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su10062085 Authors: Fang Li Sheng Zhang Yuhuan Jin Based on the perspective of knowledge transfer and the technology more

Sustainability, Vol. 10, Pages 1597: Adoption of High-Yielding Groundnut Varieties: The Sustainability of a Farmer-Led Multiplication-Dissemination Program in Eastern Uganda Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su10051597 Authors: Jeremy L. Jelliffe Boris E. Bravo-Ureta C. Michael Deom David K more

Sustainability, Vol. 10, Pages 753: The Shadow Prices of Carbon Emissions in China’s Planting Industry Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su10030753 Authors: Xiaoliang Guan Junbiao Zhang Xianrong Wu Linlin Cheng The shadow prices of carbon emissions are essential for assessing emission more

The structure of the big chemical and pharmaceutical companies has changed. Traditional centralised research departments conducting fundamental research have fallen victim to economic considerations. In exchange, young, dynamic start-up enterprises are increasingly brightening up the scene. This boosts the development of new international co-operation models for the conversion of scientific ideas and findings into new products. more

University research is predominantly orientated towards the development of new scientific findings. But it is also an important element in the training and further education of ­up-and-coming scientific talent. In principle, the central focus is the generation of scientific results that yield mid- to long-term benefits for society. The benefits are not only oriented towards economic criteria but rather to social benefits in the widest sense. more

is the manager and co-founder of Unitectra, the joint technology transfer organisation of the Universities of Basel, Bern and Zurich and their associated university hospitals. Herbert Reutimann studied natural science and received his doctorate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zuri more