Who talks to whom at a european meeting for technology transfers?

Who is interested in organizing it organizing transfers and partnerships within their borders or beyond, and who with? This article analyzes a meeting on 'bio-medical engineering' provides a few pointers in the European context, shows how the desire for contacts is structured by the nationalities, pinpoints a number of typical national 'patterns of behaviour' and highlights the dynamism of currenth deoeloping 'comparp networks'.