A STUDY OF INDUSTRY - INSTITUTES COLLABORATIVE BEHAVIORS IN INITIALIZATION, COLLABORATION, TRANSFERENCE AND COMMERCIALIZATION STAGE FROM THE TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL

The economic environment is very steep on this moment. The full and effective integrating on the developing capability of government, universities, research institutes and industries will help to speed the innovation to commercialization. Within the efficient cooperation will be able to shorten the product development process and making industrial innovation saving time. It will help industries to create more competence. This study is base on the point of “Technology Readiness Level “. It discussed the Industry-Institutes collaborative behaviors. The researching objectives are the industrial companies which had the collaboration projects with research institute teams in recent years. Base on the subject matter of the case studies which discussed the four main stages of Industry-Institutes: (Initialization) Technology,(Collaboration) Industry-Institutes collaboration, (Transference) The cognitive gap in collaboration, (Commercialization) The final technical commercialization. The four facets of this study which explore the behavior of Industry-Institutes collaboration to accelerate technology commercialization. The conclusions of this study : (1) Easily accessibility of market and technology information is the key factor to initiate the collaboration between the industrial companies and research institutes ;(2) The common consensus of the Technology Readiness Level is the key factor of successful collaboration; (3) Peer resource input in both companies and institutes is the key element of the technology commercialization;(4) Research institutes help companies to link external marketing resources is the key factor for technology commercialization success.:(5) With the flexible Industry-Institutes collaboration project according to the scale and capability of the companies can increase the chances of success of technology commercialization. Hope that through this study to enhance future Industry-Institutes collaboration to perform the quality implementation of the technology commercialization, competence for both industrial companies and research institutes.