Knowledge industrialization in Research university. Losses and possibilities of technology transfer

Abstract

The problem of knowledge commercialization in modern research university is discussed in this article. The main focus is on possible transformations of university features in the process of knowledge augmentation. The verified thesis on modern university takes an attempt to combine the distinguished intellectual potential with the ideas of competitiveness and entrepreneurship. The knowledge production is an autonomous sphere of social production. The research university itself turns into enterprise structure. The author analyzes the problem of forming the "innovative belt" as a set of structures which actualize final steps of innovative cycle. The turn to information society where knowledge plays the key role is the prerequisite of knowledge production. It is proved, that society chooses an innovative way. This process gives to knowledge the status of a decisive factor. The knowledge becomes a source of innovations. Formation of the knowledge-intensive branches of production is a component of the process mentioned.

Keywords

• Research university
• knowledge
• technology transfer
• commercialization
• knowledge production
• capitalization of knowledge