TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, A GATEWAY TO INNOVATION

However, as strong as the R&D activity of an economy may be, this is not enough to make it a fertile ground for innovation

To this end, research must be promoted in an appropriate framework, especially when it is transferred from the academic world to private companies.

INTERVIEW: CHRISTOPHE MOSER

"Talent and also money"

Christophe Moser, associate professor at EPFL, also founded and managed a technology company. He encourages the transfer of technological research to the start-up.

WHAT IS TECH TRANSFER ?

Technology transfer covers several activities that contribute to two main, partly contradictory, purposes. To promote the transition from scientific discoveries made by universities to practical applications on the one hand, and to defend the economic interests and intellectual property of these same schools on the other.

HOW PATENTS WORK

It is easier to copy an idea than to produce a new one. The purpose of patents is therefore to protect inventors by ensuring that they own their discovery under certain conditions.

VAUD, A PIONEER IN TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

The transition of a technology from academy to economy has always existed in one form or another, but its structuring as a dedicated activity is not so old.