Technology transfer to small-medium firms in late-developing areas: the concept of technology notoriety

Technology transfer processes occur with great difficulty, and often, unsuccessfully in socially and economically late developing areas. Even though most of the firms in these areas perceive the need to innovate in order to find a solution to latent problems, they are not able to satisfy this need by themselves. Moreover, few of them are able to express a clear demand for some innovation services. Thus, as the demand for these services is scarce, an offer of services supporting technology transfer for innovation is usually not stimulated. This paradox can be solved by designing a set of policies to provide small firms with customized innovation services. In this paper we suggest an approach useful to identify innovation services to transfer technology