Making Nuclear Service Technology Transfer Work

Abstract

Technology transfer has been common practice in the commercial nuclear industry since its very early days. The success of this practice is evidenced by the fact that many of the companies that are now industry leaders started as licensees of other companies. Many of these cooperative relationships have endured over the years while many have ceased to exist. As the industry has changed, there have also been many changes in how technology transfer has been implemented, and how the parties to such agreements have interacted. In today's environment of rapid change in both technology and industry structure, the partnership aspects of technology transfer need to be more strongly developed more than ever before.