Mohammad Ali Shafia - is with the Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science & Technology IUST, Tehran, Iran
Arnoosh Shakeri - is a PhD student at the same Department Tehran, Iran

This paper aims at emphasizing the importance of establishing a Project Management (PM) system in Technology Transfer (TT) processes and developing a conceptual framework for it. TT is an important process in Technology Management affairs for all enterprises. Most of the time, lack of a particular oncentration on technical, commercial and legal aspects of TT process, leads to mismanagement of other aspects of transferring project, like Time and Project Integration. This situation may lead to failure and loss of many opportunities in transfer process. To overcome this problem, inputs, outputs and activities of a typical TT processes are identified and based on these components, a conceptual framework for managing this project & prevent the loss is developed using Project Management models and methodologies.

Technology Transfer (TT) Project Management (PM) Technology Absorption Indices PM Framework