Technology Transfer

Those activities that lead to the adoption of a new technique or product by users and involves dissemination, demonstration, training, and other activities that lead to eventual innovation. (23CFR420)

This term is used to characterize "the transfer of knowledge generated and
developed in one place to another, where is it is used to achieve some
practical end." Technology may be transferred in many ways: by giving it
away (technical journals, conferences, emigration of technical experts,
technical assistance programs); by industrial espionage; or by sale
(patents, blueprints, industrial processes, and the activities of
multinational corporations).