A global standard of Technology Transfer Professionals

The Alliance of Technology Transfer Professionals (ATTP) was established to provide a global standard of professional achievement.

ATTP is established to recognize and promote individuals with these core competencies and to provide professional training for individuals, wishing to acquire these skills and become a Registered Technology Transfer Professional (RTTP).
 
Rather than each association having its own accreditation criteria, they now have come together to establish internationally recognized standards. At launch ATTP connects more than 5000 technology transfer professionals in 67 countries.

The goal of ATTP is to support the development of the technology transfer profession and its practitioners:

"Transferring innovations and knowledge resulting from public research is now more important than ever", says ASTP president Karen Laigaard. "Companies investing in the development of innovations strengthen their competitiveness in a globalized world and can react to change more easily. Therefore, research commercialization and the transfer of scientific results to industry, is vital to the development of products and processes, and ultimately, to economic growth."