bridging the gap: se technology transfer into practice - study design and preliminary results -
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Background: Particularly during and after research projects, technology transfer into practice plays an important role for academia to get technologies into use and for industry to improve their development. Objective: Our goal was to gain more and current knowledge about how technology transfer from software engineering (SE) research into industrial practice is accomplished best and how to measure the effectiveness of this transfer. Method: We conducted a study in the context of two German research projects, covering many different organizations from industry and academia. Results: This paper presents the design of the study and the survey performed. After introducing the concept of technology transfer we used and adapted, we present preliminary results. Conclusions: We observed that traditional means such as meetings or workshops are still the most widely used mediums for technology transfer in SE. We also discovered that, even though the duration of transfer depends on the object being transferred, the average duration is three years, which is far less than previously published (~18 years).TRANSCRIPT
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BRIDIGING THE GAP: SE Technology Transfer into Practice
Study Design and Preliminary Results Philipp Diebold, Antonio Vetrò
8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement 19 September 2014 - Torino, Italy
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Defintion Technology Transfer
Technology Transfer (TT) is defined as
“the process sharing
knowledge, machines, equipment,
methods, techniques, processes, […]
from transferors to transferees, who will exploit the technology into new products,
processes, applications, and business models” [1]
[1] Teece, D.J. 1997. Technology transfer by multinational firms: The resource cost of transferring technological know-how. In Economics Journal, 242-261
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Motivation
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Study Goal
Characterize the TT of SE objects with
respect to the current state of the practice
(SG1), the transfer mediums used (SG2), and
improvements or future transfer trends
(SG3) from the industry and researcher perspective within SE
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Study Design Survey Structure
Start
Demographics
Current State of Transfer
Medium Assessment
Transfer Improvement
End
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Study Design Survey Structure – Motivation [9]
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Study Design Survey Structure - Object
“[…] knowledge, machines, equipment,
methods, techniques, processes, […]” [1]
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Study Design Survey Structure - Process
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Study Design Survey Structure – Time to transfer
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Study Design Survey Structure - Trigger
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Study Design Survey Structure – Mediums
64 different mediums
Models (1st layer) 2nd layer 3rd layer People-mover model [2] Personal exchange
…
Communication model [2]
Publications Internet resources Conferences, workshops, etc. Guidelines
Vendor model [2] Consultancy On-the-shelf model [2] Software, systems, and tool
Standards Cooperative model Co-working
Licensing Research cooperation
Educational model Educational programs
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Study Design Survey Structure – Goals
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Preliminary Results Time to Transfer
3
“[…] knowledge, machines, equipment,
methods, techniques, processes, […]” [1]
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Preliminary Results TT Mediums
22%
22%
16%
5%
5%
11%
5%
11%
61%
38%
38%
33%
33%
38%
33%
27%
33%
11%
5%
5%
16%
22%
44%
33%
50%
33%
33%
16%
16%
27%
38%
16%
11%
11%
11%
5%
16%
11%
27%
38%
22%
38.89%
27%
5%
5%
11%
5%
11%
5%
5%
11%
11%
38%
0% 50% 100%
Workshopsand meetings
Personnelexchange
Co-working
Publications
ResearchcooperationSoftware,
systems, and…
Consultancy
Internetresources
Conferences
Guidelines
Educationalprograms
Licensing andstandards
Always Often Sometimes Rarely Never
human intensive
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Future Work Analyze Results
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Future Work Extending / Spreading the survey
setechtransfer.wordpress.com
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Questions?
Thank you
“the process sharing knowledge, machines,
equipment, methods, techniques,
processes, from transferors to transferees” [1]
Transfer Object
Transferor Transferee
Transaction
Transfer Medium
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