TECHNOLOGY TRANSITION : A STRUCTURED APPROACH

Most benefits, which could be obtained through use of a technology that has been developed and successfully used elsewhere, are through transition of that technology, and not by just transferring it. Technology transition is a set of processes and mechanisms that causes the technology to become sucessfully matured and used routinely in a particular environment. It must include not only an analysis of the user needs, but many other related activities such as, enducation, training, experiments, policy changes, standards, reviews, collaboration, meetings, publications, licensing, and a host of others. As such, technology transition is a phased activity to adopt a technology from a producer to the users through a sequency of systematic actvities. It is a painstaking process for the users and the producers. However, once perfected it can be used for most technologies and at a significant reduction in cost and schedule with a high degree of probability of success.