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Our workshop aims to discuss the terms transfer success and transfer effectiveness and to agree on a common definition with the participants on the one hand. On the other, the moderators and workshop participants together will develop a set of indicators to measure technology and knowledge transfer success by focussing on the interaction of university with industry and society. The initiators’ background is the joint research project "Transfer_i" which's name simply stands for Transfer Indicators. The research partners developed a holistic approach on the technology and knowledge transfer process to contribute to the rather fragmented state of research. In addition, the project points out its value of practice by attempting a measurement of transfer output and even its impact with quantitative and qualitative indicators.
Today, many higher education institutions seek to professionalise their third mission activities and are asked to track their transfer processes according to their performance. Thus, an already considerable number of studies have been developed in recent years presenting approaches to transfer models or proposing a range of indicators to measure transfer performance from a universities’ perspective. The research project Transfer_i (transfer indicators) aims to present a transfer model approach, which reflects the complexity of knowledge and technology transfer processes in order to overcome the limited perspectives of existing models. The empirical study in progress presented in this paper shows first findings, which validate the developed approach. In contrast to nearly all other studies presenting only a universities’ viewpoint, this study shows the perspective of the other actors within the transfer practice, thereby providing useful insights for universities and research institutions on how to value their third mission activities.