Utilizing Alcoholism Treatment Research Findings in Clinical Practice

Technology transfer is one term used to describe this process, coined to refer to incorporating technology developed for the space program into useful consumer products, used most effectively in the field of agriculture.

Abstract

Transferring the results of scientific research into practical applications that benefit society has been and continues to be a challenging task.Technology transferis one term used to describe this process. This term was coined to refer to incorporating technology developed for the space program into useful consumer products. Another commonly used term isknowledge utilization.These terms are used interchangeably throughout this chapter. Technology transfer or knowledge utilization is probably performed most effectively in the field of agriculture. Historically, agricultural technology transfer has its modern beginnings in the 1920s with efforts to disseminate agricultural science to farmers.1