From idea, certificate and innovation thru technological transfer and services at
highly innovative units with activity based on added value

ARoTT - Romanian Association for Technology Transfer and Innovation is a professional organization of technological transfer and innovation profile units, a non-governmental and non-profit organization.

Evaluation report (pdf file)

Association purpose

• Promoting and protecting business environment of technological transfer entities (incubators, parks, etc) and innovative business from Romania,
• Promote professional interest of members,
• Strengthening professional authority of entities and their social prestige,
• Increased competitively by reinforcing technological and innovation base.

ARoTT attributes

• Promote and protect professional and commercial interest of members.
• Organize and promote professional and commercial contacts of entities from same activity domain.
• Elaborate and promote legislative initiatives for members and facilitate members access to governmental and non-governmental organizations.
• Organize and ensure support for collaboration between members.
• Assistance and promote of individual, common or third person projects.
• Competitive industry thru:
• Promote economical competitively concept thru R&D and Innovation.
• Promote ethical conduct foot members;
• Promote quality in members activity.
• Promote durable development concept for/thru members activity.
• Stimulate and promote innovative activities, protect technical and intellectual rights.
• Promote industry image inside and outside of country.
• Ensure competitive informational flux and non-discriminatory dissemination of data for members.
• Perform technological transfer activities, research-development, studies and strategy development, creating databases, centralize information’s and ensure non-discriminatory access of members.
• Promote and participate at informational and knowledge society implementation from Romania.
• Organize improving actions inside/outside of country for members benefit.
• Organize events and programs for young people in order to promote Informational Society and Knowledge Society.
• Association demonstrate representative and advisory character thru:
• Represent and sustain professional, commercial or group interest of members in front of governmental or non-governmental organization/institutions from our country or foreign countries; 
• Study elaboration, information sharing, specialty consulting for members or third persons\;
• Propose to legal organization promoting of normative documents for members;
• Initiate meetings and professional contacts.

ARoTT members, associations, organizations with juridical personality, profit or non-profit, legal private and organizations from universitary environment which are joining to actual statute.

Objective: Increasing number of products and technology offers or used thru technological transfer.
Reaching the objective:

• Identify and promote innovative products;
• Promote technological cooperation;
• Access to research results.

What is trans-national technological transfer

• The proces thru which information, knowledge, ideea or technology developed by an organisation for a certain purpose are used or applied in other organisation from other area and different purpose.
• Relation between innovators and applicants which leads to creation or development of new products, technologies or systems;
• Selling or exchange of intellectual properties regarding a technology, involving producer agreement;
• Successful application or adaptation of developed technology of one unit in such way that will correspond for necessities of more units;
• Assuming technology, know-how or experience from one unit to another, industrial sector to another, from research to market as an innovation element (which not include just simple commerce);

Ensured services

1. Promoting research results for industry and international partners;
2. Identify new technology offers and requires;
3. Consultance and promoting of new technologies;
4. Consultance regarding industrial property, technological transfer trans-national;
5. Organize and participate at international meetings, brokerage, market and exhibitions;
6. Dissemination; creating partnerships;
7. Contractors forming;
8. Support for implementing new products or technologies;
9. Requirements evaluation and offers for SME’s and their international collaboration abilities;
10. Consultancy for certify according to ISO 9001 quality standards.

Strategies

• Creating a network in order to stimulate partnerships and developing new promoting innovation strategies;
• Stimulate local communications in order to identify problems, finding solutions and actors for  implementation;
• Creating SME’s – Local administration – Research – Innovation – University – Civil society – Industrial units partnerships in order to develop thru innovation;
• Information gathering, create partnerships opportunities and business development.
• Increasing number of innovative units based on high added value and number of efficient units based on innovative technologies.