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The political and economic pressures that have been in recent decades universities to increase research funding from industry, have led to the emergence and consolidation of what some authors such as: Laredo (2007) and Music, (2009) called the third mission: the transfer of knowledge from universities to industry.

This combined with the traditional missions of education and research, contribute to economic and social development of countries and regions where these are ubicadas.En recent years, especially in Europe and the United States, universities in general and particularly the large research institutions have rapidly increased its participation in technology transfer activity.

(Power, 2003). For this reason, policymakers are seeing universities as engines of economic growth through the commercialization of intellectual property generated through the transfer of technology.