scholarly journals Actor-network theory: opening the black box of the reasons for the involvement of researchers in the technology transfer process

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-72
Author(s):  
Marcelo De Oliveira Garcia ◽  
Rodrigo Gava ◽  
Dany Flávio Tonelli ◽  
Valéria da Glória Pereira Brito
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Transfer Process ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Technology Transfer Process ◽  
Transfer Of Technology

The process of technology transfer represents a type of social phenomenon that becomes a black box after its completion. That is, access to the process becomes invisible and obscure. The reasons that lead a public researcher to participate in the technology transfer process represented the main concerns to support the research question, whose derived analysis was based on the theoretical-methodological assumptions of the Actor-Network Theory (ANT). This research contributes to understanding the transfer of technology as a complex phenomenon that features the participation of actors with complex and diverse interests; that is, each technology transfer process is singular in its understanding.

STRUCTURING A SUCCESSFUL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROCESS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF ACTOR NETWORK THEORY

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huda Ibrahim ◽  
Hasmiah Kasimin
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Transfer Process ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Technology Transfer Process

An effi cient and effective information technology transfer from developed countries to Malaysia is an important issue as a prerequisite to support the ICT needs of the country to become not only a ICT user but also a ICT producer. One of the factors that infl uences successful information technology transfer is managing the process of how technology transfer occurs in one environment. It involves managing interaction between all parties concerned which requires an organized strategy and action toward accomplishing technology transfer objective in an integrated and effective mode. Using a conceptual framework based on the Actor Network Theory (ANT), this paper will analyse a successful information technology transfer process at a private company which is also a supplier of information technology (IT) products to the local market. This framework will explain how the company has come up with a successful technology transfer in a local environment. Our study shows that the company had given interest to its relationships with all the parties involved in the transfer process. The technology transfer programme and the strategy formulated take into account the characteristics of technology and all those involved.  

Transfer of Technology to Nigeria and the Patents and Designs Act 1970

1981 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-93
Author(s):  
S. K. Date-Bah
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Transfer Process ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Patent System ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Commercial Exploitation ◽  
Know How ◽  
Technology Transfer Process ◽  
Transfer Of Technology

The patent system has been claimed to be one of the ways of facilitating the transfer of technology from the industrialised North to the less developed countries of the South. It is by no means the only way in which this can be done. For one thing, not all technology is patented. Also, quite often before a patented process can be successfully worked there is need for the transfer of unpatented know-how along with the technology covered by the patent. Besides, it is not the patent itself which enables the transfer of the technology; rather, by making the title and exclusive rights of the patentee secure, it emboldens him to transfer his technology to others for commercial exploitation. Nevertheless, the patent is an important factor in the technology transfer process. As one United Nations report has put it:

Managing Multi-Organizational Interaction Issues

2011 ◽  
pp. 192-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasmiah Kasimin ◽  
Huda Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Transfer Process ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Public Agency ◽  
Technology Transfer Process ◽  
Technology Transfers ◽  
Concepts Of Technology ◽  
Private Sector Organizations

In Malaysia, major information technology transfers in public sector agencies are usually due to policy implementation. This policy-led technology transfer involves central government directives to the implementation agencies. The technology transfer process usually not only involves multi-organizations that consist of many public agencies and private sector organizations but also involved many phases. Each organization plays certain roles and contributes to the achievement of the technology transfer objectives. Each phase serves a different purpose and each role during each phase has different requirements. Coordinating and encouraging the multiple organization participation in each phase is complex and a challenge that may at least result in project delays or technological decision-making that based on non-technical considerations. In such a case, understanding and managing interactions between stakeholders are important in designing activities and strategies for effective technology transfer process suitable to local environment. This is especially true for technology that requires further development to adapt with local environment. This paper explores this issue in a case study of XYZ technology transfer in a Malaysian public agency. We make use an approach based on actor-network theory and the concepts of technology transfer stages. We found that ignoring issues emerged from interactions between stakeholders will not only delay the transfer process but will also render the project’s original objectives as not fully achieved.

ANT, Phenomenography and a Research Question in Information Systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Davey
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Actor Network

This paper describes the research Approach of Phenomenography. A research question that has been addressed by this method is used to allow comparison between Phenomenography and Actor- Network Theory as approaches to questions involving the adoption of new techniques in information systems projects.

International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering guidelines on transfer of analytical methods of quality control for medical preparation

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-79
Author(s):  
M.A. Razborova
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
International Society ◽  
Transfer Process ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing ◽  
International Guidelines ◽  
Medical Preparation ◽  
Technology Transfer Process ◽  
Transfer Of Technology

This review contains the recommendations of International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering for the transfer of analytical methods of quality control for medical preparation. Due to the absence of the Russian documents describing in detail the technology transfer process, pharmaceutical developers and manufacturers should refer to international guidelines. One of the main documents which fully describes the process of pharmaceutical technologies transfer is International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering guidelines on transfer of technology in pharmaceutical manufacturing. This review contains the recommendations for the transfer of analytical methods only. International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering also have recommendations for the transfer of medical preparation manufacturing.

Convergence

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-147
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
To Come ◽  
Insight Into

Actor network theory as the “sociology of translation,” is used as a lens to examine the chronology of the development of the MOU Agreement, which provides insight into the mechanics of its formation and network of relations. Translation uncovered dimensions of the network's development: why associations between the actors were created, the factors that mobilized these heterogeneous parties to come together. Further, it also uncovered how their functions were ascribed and how stability or “black box” status was achieved. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is positioned as a moment in ANT facilitating the analyses of the network linkages of the MOU actor network assist to identify the interactions at various levels of the MOU social partnership actor network. The two worldviews complement each other within an interpretivist framework revealing the potential to analyse network interactions through the lens of discourse.

Producing Oedipus: Totem and Taboo Read Through Actor Network Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-204
Author(s):  
Felipe Massao Kuzuhara
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Clinical Cases

This article reads Freud's Totem and Taboo (1912–13) according to its role within the consolidation of the Oedipus complex. Freud's text is discussed with a focus on the process of knowledge production in psychoanalysis, and in relation to Bruno Latour's ideas of translation, association and black box. In this respect, this article regards a central feature of Totem and Taboo as being the articulation of a full-scale argument for the production of the Oedipus complex as ‘fact’. It is in this sense that different actors such as clinical cases, totemism, phylogenesis, the development of psychoanalytic theory and so on are considered here.

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