This document discusses technology transfer. It defines technology transfer as the process of transferring technology from where it originated to wider distribution. It discusses the relationship between invention, innovation, design, and diffusion in technology transfer. Invention is the original concept, innovation is developing and refining an existing idea/product, design is part of the innovation process using modeling, and diffusion involves promotion and sale of the product. The document also outlines various roles like research, development, production, and markets in technology transfer and ways technology can be transferred such as collaborative research, patenting, licensing, spin-off companies, etc. It describes types of technology from emerging to established and constituents of the technology transfer process.