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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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