Technology Transfer at the Academic Environment from the Perspective of Knowledge Flow within Open Innovation

Abstract

The development of cooperation among entities, within which resources and knowledge exchange go beyond the boundaries of organizations, creates a more open approach. The academic environment and the university, when cooperating, play an important role in the transfer of technologies for increasing economic growth and sustainable development. For this reason, this contribution focuses on the analysis of selected aspects of technology transfer at the Technical University in Zvolen from the perspective of the flow of knowledge within the framework of open access to innovation. The outputs of the Technical University in Zvolen published in the scientific database Web of Science over the past 10 years were used for the evaluation. The generated data on publications from the database were subsequently analysed and a network map characterizing the transfer of technology and knowledge on the academic campus of the selected university was processed using the VOSviewer program version 1.6.20. Based on the analysis performed, it can be stated that the transfer of technologies and knowledge at the Technical University in Zvolen from the perspective of cooperation with other organizations and universities is global.