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===**Content and Methodology**  ===


The Technology Commercialization and R&D Management 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.

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The Handbook will contain detailed “how to” instructions, based on global best practice lessons of experience, along with check lists, model documents, and case examples showing how specific countries or institutions addressed a specific problem. Initial Handbook content is summarized in the left hand side **Navigation** panel on this page. 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.  The expected audience for the Handbook 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 R&D management projects and programs; and (iii) bilateral and multilateral development partners who are also developing technology commercialization and R&D management programs. 


 Priority sections will change as the wiki grows but current priorities for additional knowledge, based on questions we have received are:  Managing the process of commercializing research from higher education institutions, public and private research institutes, and enterprises  Understanding and responding to Global R&D needs and participating in international business and R&D networks Managing intellectual property Management of technology commercialization and transfer offices to link scientists to domestic and international technology markets

Introduction
A common definition of technology commercialization is that it is the process of taking an idea to market and creating financial value -- typically through licensing or creating a new business. Although the concept of technology commercialization sounds disarmingly simple, many government officials are discovering to their chagrin that implementing a successful technology commercialization program is more complex than they initially believed. more

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