The obstacles to the technology transference are general and historical, and besides they imply a massive waste of intelligence. We analyze the indicators of the context of technology transference from the university to the industry, this analysis allows us to define the strengths and weaknesses in European, national and regional perspective. An essential factor in the technology transference is the marketing and communication, therefore we examine of critical and positive way the role of the OTRIs (Technology Transference Office).

This paper gathers some results of the "SME Policy and Regional Dimension of Innovation (SMEPOL)" research project, sponsored by the European Union. Such investigation was aimed to the assessment of forty innovation promotion policy arrangements applied in eleven European Union regions, with different economic and regulatory frameworks.

After the definition of Technology Paths Map, the author offers several kinds of those maps applied in different industries. Then, the relationships between maps and technology transfer are explored. Finally, some rules for the elaboration of maps are offered.

Innovation Management and Knowledge Management are connected from an Competencies Approach. This statement allows the authors to develop the "firm's craft". This idea is useful to the analysis of structural and strategic organizational aspects, from the point of those skills mastered by the firm. That analysis is based in the creation of a corporate culture oriented to the coordination of all those aspects.

This article analyses the changes in the Section 17 of the Act No. 13/1986, "On the Improvement and General Coordination of Technical and Scientific Research", operated from the mandate of the Act No. 12/2001, "On Urgent Reform Measures of the Labour Market for the Employment Increase and the Improvement of its Quality".

A large number of the results attained in the Public Research Centres are transferable either to private firms or to another users. So, an interface between the researcher and the market is needed. The argument is that to offer proper technology transference tools to the Public Research Centres, in order to optimise those results in a competitive environment, implies to build market-oriented organizations.

"Intellectual Capital" is widely used, but it is a concept with several different meanings. This diversity, along with the following argument of Stewart (1994: 28) "intellectual capital accountability is more than a fashion. The critical point is to know how a firm performs, and how it is assessed when knowledge is its main resource and performance", implies that an integrated "intellectual capital" concept is needed. In order to deal with this task, the authors show the different meanings used in the literature, and, as a consequence, proposes a comprehensive definition of it.