26th International Association for Management of Technology Conference - IAMOT 2017

The distance between the research processes and production and technology market is one of the major challenges in technology development and innovation in Iran. In order to play a more effective role of universities in the development of knowledge, especially, technical knowledge and solving problems in the community, many countries have forced universities to increase commercialization of universities’ research results. So Certain structural units such as technology transfer offices, incubators, entrepreneurship centers and science and technology parks has been formed in the universities to increase the commercialization of intellectual properties from universities and transfer developed technologies at academic institutions. In Iran, several academic centers have been established in recent years and in order to achieve their objectives, they need to follow integrated management to manage transformation of knowledge as the main asset to wealth. In this study, first we tried to examine academic centers of the world(MIT, Cambridge, TUM, Middle East university, Zhejiang University, KAUST, NU) from the perspective of technology management functions or tools and then compare them with integrated management model of university Science and Technology Park that was implemented in Tehran University Science and Technology Park. Finally, due to the lack of coverage of some technology management functions in an integrated management model of university Science and Technology Park, the suggestion of the addition of process / technology cluster development center to the model was presented.