Methodology for Assessment Activity of the Technology Transfer Office Based on ANP

The Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) play an important role in the interconnection of Spanish Universities with its socioeconomic environment.In this paper an assessment which takes into account the results of the TTOs and analyzes the degree of alignment with the objectives set is carried out.The present work aims to design a methodology, based on the method Analytic Network Process Method (ANP), to evaluate the performance of the TTO.This method allows to set a priority between the different results obtained by the TTO and analyze the efficiency of public resources.This study will also include an analysis of the objectives of the TTO, the prioritizing them and analyzing the achievement of these objectives through various activities and actions undertaken by the TTO.This analysis should be useful to managers to determine which actions contribute, and to what extent, the achievement of objectives and which ones should be removed, modified or enhanced to improve the level of achievement.