知識經濟時代的來臨，財富的創造已不是來自土地與勞工等傳統生產要素，而是在於知識的創造與累積，台灣土地貧瘠、缺乏天然資源，但擁有豐富的科技人力資源，能有效運用這些知識資本，將是台灣經濟發展的重要關鍵。大學研究經費豐足、聚集博士級以上頂尖研究人才、其研究領域多屬前瞻、初期階段的發現，雖具開發成為新產品或服務之潛力，但現階段未必為業界所青睞的應用科技解決方案。如何尋求具備遠見，願擔風險投入早期技術研發的合作廠商，建立長期的合作關係，將大學強大的研發能量擴散、釋放到民間，有效地將政府資助大學所得的研發成果，移轉予產業界進行商業化的步驟，是促進產業升級經濟發展的重要機制。
是以近年來各國極力推動產學間的合作，希冀在大學知識傳授與探索研究之基本任務仍得確保的前提下，建立有效的技術授權機制，將學界創新研發的能量，引導入產業界，協助產業提升創新研發之競爭力，同時也能為學校的研發成果創造新的價值，而達產學雙贏的局面。
授權契約是技術移轉流程的最後一步，但往往為人忽視，前階段的評估協商與最後的擬約訂約被切割處理，特別在欠缺法務資源的大學技轉單位，簽訂授權契約時，僅使用制式、簡陋之契約範本，填入授權時間、授權金、權利金、授權標的等項目，少就契約文字進行訂正，並檢視契約範本設計之用字遣詞是否符合該次授權協議談判之內容。在此背景下，本研究即欲將策略思考帶進契約的設計，探討大學技術授權之策略考量，以及如何將之轉化成契約文字，使技術授權之目的能被落實。
本研究試圖從探討產學合作之機制與困難、大學技術移轉模式相關之豐富文獻中，整理出大學技術移轉授權的策略考量，並進一步分析在確定策略考量與策略目標之下，可能的授權模式為何，各種授權模式在實際運用時常遭遇何種的困難，這些困難是否能透過契約設計之安排，使技術移轉的策略目標順利達成。接著將進一步以美國技轉績效傲人的史丹福大學，與台灣研發能量最豐、學術資源最足的台灣大學兩校之授權契約範本作為研究個案，比較契約設計的應然與實然。
本研究透過對我國與美國技術授權相關文獻的分析，並以美國史丹佛大學與國立台灣大學之契約範本作為個案研究對象，歸納整理後得出結論為台灣各大學因為技轉的風氣未盛，契約的使用量與重要性自然被嚴重低估，我國大學並未設計與其策略與發展領域、特色相符的契約範本，大部分都直接沿用國科會提供之契約範本，契約條款的設計不夠細緻，容易流於只是策略的宣示，未能透過交易條件的安排達到授權策略預設的目標。相較美國史丹福大學因技轉風氣興盛，契約的類型發展成熟，契約內容與授權策略高度呼應，使授權的進行與大學原始的教學研究使命可以相輔相成。我國大學之技術授權契約存在很大的改善空間。
本研究建議大學應制訂明文之技轉策略書，向廠商宣傳大學技術授權之使命，並儘快對現行使用契約之契約進行撤底檢視與修正，完備契約範本的內容，可以有效增進締約的效率，同時可以思考契約作為宣傳性質的工具，例如因應技術特性，設計技術移轉的定型化契約，讓潛在被授權人清楚瞭解大學技術授權契約的交易條件，透過網路將完整的資訊揭露與友善便宜的締約程序，以有效提高的授權活動的效率與成功率。 / In knowledge based economy, how to create and accumulate knowledge assets dominates the fortune-making. Taiwan is short of natural resources but full of technology human reseources. Hence, how to apply knowledge adequately become the key factor to improve Taiwan’s economic growth. The abundant funds and outstanding research professionals are the advantages of university. However, the researches usually belong to early-stage ones and hardly meet the practical needs of industries. Universities need foresighted industry partners who is willing to risk investing in technology commercialization. University-Industry Cooperation is the important mechanism that helps the industry development through knowledge transfer.
Thus, governments encourage enthusiastically the cooperation between university and industry. The target of Univeristy-Industry Cooperation is to assure the essential function of education and research of the university and build up an effective mechanism of technology licensing to introduce academic R&D energy into the industry. The cooperation can thus enhance the innovation competency of industry and create new value for the R&D results of academia, to build a win-win situation.
License agreement is the last mile of the whole technology transfer process but its importance is usually ignored. For the limited legal resources of university TTOs (technology transfer office), all Taiwan universities use a formulaic contract provided by NSC (National Science Council) and seldom amend the details to meet their own need for individual transactions. However, licensing approaches, even for comparable technologies, can vary considerably from case to case. This thesis will bring licensing strategy into contract design, analyze university licensing strategy, and elaborate the transformation from strategy to contract for the purpose of technology licensing.
This paper reviews literatures concerning university-industry cooperation and the technology transfer models and outlines university licensing strategy. The discussion further elaborate goals of licensing, possible licensing models and pathways, and find out the difficulties during license process. The design of contract also try to solve all these problems and fulfill the purpose of technology transfer. The thesis also compare the difference between the ideal and practice of licensing contract design through the study of contract format of Stanford University and National Taiwan University.
Through the studies, the thesis propose that the significance of licensing contract is much underestimated due to the immaturity of university-industry license transactions in Taiwan. Unlike universities in the U.S., Taiwan’s universities do not design licensing contracts according to their licensing strategy and academic developments. The disregard of contract design will cause the impracticality of licensing strategy and thus be unable to achieve the original goal of technology transfer. A mature contract design which corresponds to the licensing strategy will connect the technology transfer to the academic research purpose, which can be observed in the case of Stanford University.
This paper suggests that universities should set up a clear licensing strategy book of their own and widely announce to industry. Taiwan universities should reform the contract format as soon as possible and learn to take licensing contracts as a marketing tool, to promote a model contract for special technology licensing with detail information on it, to help potential licensee to understand the bargaining condition of the contract. Universities can provide complete information and easier contracting process through the internet, to improve the efficiency and prosperity of technology transfer.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CHENGCHI/G0095361002 |
| Creators | 翁千惠 |
| Publisher | 國立政治大學 |
| Source Sets | National Chengchi University Libraries |
| Language | 中文 |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
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