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This study focused on the legal considerations for developing systematic mechanism to enhance the applicable level of commercialization for the technologies which were developed by public financial supports. Actually, according to related reports, it was shown that the success rate of commercialization amounted to below 10% in terms of public research and development performances which were acquired by governmental institutes, universities and national and public research institutes. In political, technical and industrial viewpoints, this study basically described the technology transfer for research and development business operated in public sectors so as to develop systematic mechanism for improving low commercialization as described above. The study also examined legislative examples related to the technology transfer of each country in terms of comparative law, and presented our legal system as well as the reasonable legislative solutions so as to activate public technology transfer. The methods of the study can be described as follows: First, research literatures and reports are examined and arranged, which have been published so far. Those materials are also summarized on the basis of related data or informations which are submitted to various public institutes as well as summary questionnaire and the experience in technology transfer. Furthermore, the materials are used as a basic data for analyzing our legal system by examining laws and regulations related to technology transfer in foreign countries in terms of comparative law. The scope and content of this study can be classified into 3 sections: ⅰ) Generality for public technology transfer; ⅱ) legislative examples from each country in terms of public technology transfer; ⅲ) legal system and remedial direction for public technology transfer in Korea. Finally, the remedial direction for legislation to facilitate public technology transfer can be summarized into 5 sections as follows: Firstly, in terms of legal arrangement related to technology transfer. Secondly, in terms of research and development business. Thirdly, in terms of the support system for public technology transfer. Fourthly, in terms of the management system for public technology transfer. Finally, in terms of the right to execute the public technology transfer.