Technology transactions involve a wide range of technologies, including technology development, technology transfer, technology consulting, and technology services.
Technical services mainly refer to providing technical support services to customers. Common services include software, system architecture, network security, data analysis, etc. Technology development refers to ensuring the stability of the company's business through the development of new products and technologies. For long-term stable development, technical consulting services include providing customers with professional technical consulting and guidance.
Technical exchanges are mainly through technical exchange meetings and other methods to jointly discuss corporate business technology trends. Technology transfer refers to the company licensing its own research and development technology products to customers, and technology promotion refers to the company’s Promote the technologies and products that have been developed to the market.
Technology trading refers to activities that realize the transfer, transformation, authorization and exchange of technology property rights through transactions, so that technology can be effectively utilized. Technology transfer means that technology rights holders transfer their technology to others, usually in return for a certain transfer fee and future profit sharing. The advantage of technology transfer is that it can obtain complete technology property rights, but the disadvantage is that it needs to bear the risks of technology transfer.
Technology trading methods:
1. License trade. Licensing trade refers to a party (licensor) that owns patent rights, trademark rights or proprietary technology granting a patent to the licensee. The technology transaction method allows the party to obtain the right to use the patent and product manufacturing by paying a certain amount of remuneration. A method of trading rights and sales rights.
While using the patent, the licensee must also bear obligations such as technical confidentiality. Licensing trade is the most extensive and common transaction method in international technology transfer activities.
2. Technical consulting services. Technical consulting services refer to one party using its own technology, including hired technical personnel, technical equipment and technical data, to provide technical support to the other party, assisting it in completing a specific technical task through technology transactions, and thereby obtaining certain A form of transaction for remuneration.
3. Cooperative production. Co-production refers to a transaction method that combines economic cooperation and technology transfer in which two or more parties from different countries cooperate with each other according to the signed contract to jointly research, produce or jointly design a certain product.
There are various methods of cooperative production, and the methods of technical transactions are constantly changing. The method adopted mainly depends on the political, economic, and technical conditions of the partners and each other's wishes.