Technology Transfer between Research Units and Enterprises. An approach to centred model in the impact on territorial strategic targets

The purpose of this paper is to present significant advances on a research project under development by the authors. The project, analyses the bases for a model that evaluates technology transfer between research units and companies; it does it, by trimming the impact on strategic targets, investigation units, companies and the region itself in which they are immersed by analyzing the impact in terms of their development and consequential benefits for the society. It is tried to diffuse the preliminary design of a model, the research method and tools that facilitate the multidimensional approaches that are able to involve actors who are of very different nature (partnerships) and that allow generating and managing knowledge in a participative way. This would encourage an improvement in the dialogue between science and society, defining specific research activities and as a final step, taking actions without losing in mind, the goal of favouring and encouraging the ownership of this knowledge by the territorial actors and the people who eventually will contribute to the improvement of the territorial governance. This model underlines the scientific world and territorial complementary action, the participative research-action activity could be defined as a kind of research behaviour in which researchers and territorial actors are involved in pursue of a double objective: first of all, a scientific one which would be represented by improving the knowledge on a concrete aspect of the territorial structure and/or dynamics; and a second one, that would embrace the acting and resolution of concrete problems of a definite region or territory.