Abstract

This study aims to review literature in Technology Transfer Office (TTO) which identifies and analyzes the research trends, methods, and topics, and directions for future research. The methodology used in this paper is a systematic literature review, which collects data from the Scopus and Web of Science databases and based on the specified research questions, 86 papers selected objectively were published from 2000 to May 2020. This study finds a sharp growth of publications on the topic after 2000 until now. Journal of Technology Transfer is the journal that has the most articles with a total of seventeen articles, and the most active authors with a minimum of three articles in the TTO field of four authors. The topics in the TTO field are grouped into seven groups, role of TTO, assessment, measurement, and performance of TTO, organizational structure of TTO, collaboration forms, model of TTO, commercialization, and knowledge transfer. Moreover, the research methods used are quantitative method, qualitative method and mixed-method, and data collection methods are interviews, analyzing previous data/databases, questionnaires, surveys, and case studies. Research tools used are regression, multi-criteria and decision making (MCDM), literature review, multivariate analysis, descriptive statistics, design experiment, focus group discussion, and empirical analysis. The findings and future research directions of the study offers a new avenue for further exploration and contribution to this discipline.

Keywords

Technology Transfer Office, Collaboration, Assessment, and Model