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 * Guidelines for contributors **
 * Handbook purpose **

The Technology Commercialization Handbook is intended to serve as a practical, “how to” guide. Its primary purpose is to help countries, and academic, government, research, and private organizations understand what technology commercialization is, how it has been applied and with what results, and how to assess if technology commercialization is an appropriate strategy to reach defined goals in terms of benefits, feasibility, and likelihood of success. toc

Each Handbook Module will contain detailed “how to” instructions, based on global good practice lessons from experience, along with check lists, model documents, case examples and studies showing how specific countries or institutions addressed a specific problem, together with references and citations to further background material and more detailed resources, and sample documents. The Handbook will also (i) create one central repository for all reference materials and (ii) considerably expand and deepen the pool of lessons of experience easily available to the target audiences.

Expected audience
The expected audience for the Handbook as noted in the Introduction and Background would be (i) primarily World Bank clients including Government officials who will need to make informed choices about the most-effective technology commercialization and R&D management programs available to their countries; (ii) World Bank managers and staff who will be designing and implementing technology commercialization and innovation or R&D management projects and programs; and (iii) bilateral and multilateral development partners who are also developing technology commercialization, innovation, and R&D management programs.

Some users of the Technology Commercialization Handbook will know little about technology commercialization, while others with projects already in place will need more advanced and specific knowledge.

//**Please contribute what you know from your practical experience**//

Original materials created for this wiki, existing documents (see restrictions below), case examples and studies, good practices, and guiding questions will all be of value and welcomed. You can add new materials or expand or change the content of any wiki page.

// All materials you add to the TCH Wiki must be in the public domain or written by you. You may create __links__ to copyrighted materials, but do not __add__ copyrighted materials to the TCH wiki itself. See the Creative Commons License note at the bottom of this page. //

Please Note: this is an unofficial experimental site so do not add any information that may be sensitive or business-critical.

//**Not sure where to add stuff? Does it seem to fit in more than one place?**// The Sections and Modules are intended as guides only. Please put additions wherever you see fit. We can change things around as the wiki content grows.

How to submit your contributions
The Technology Commercialization Handbook is divided into main __Sections__ (see the Navigation Panel on the left side of every page) and several __Modules__ within each section.

To suggest new Sections just go to "Suggestions for additional Sections" on the __Navigation Panel__ on the left side of every page.

There are several ways for you to submit your content.


 * 1) Add text directly to any page by using the “Edit” Tab on each page – the Edit Toolbar will appear.
 * 2) Add comments and discuss page content by using the “Discussion” Tab on each page.
 * 3) Upload existing documents using the “Edit” Tab Toolbar.

For details go to “ How to make changes to this wiki ” on the Navigation Panel on the left side of every page and “Help” at the top of each page.

Don’t worry about making mistakes, every page can be rolled back to its previous version.

Any questions?
Please contact:

Alistair Brett, Consultant, STI Global Expert Team: alistair.brett@gmail.com|