The world population is facing the growth of rapidly aging population and an increased number of chronic illnesses. Development of new drugs and therapies present one of the answers for this situation. Pharmaceutical industry and its achievements are crucial in health and quality of life improvement globally. Given the complexity of the process by which a new drug comes into the market, a collaboration between various different industrial sectors is needed. In order to facilitate and accelerate the overall process of drug development and marketing a pharmaceutical technology transfer is implemented. In the pharmaceutical industry, as one of the most advanced industrial sectors in general, technology transfer is the process of transferring the knowledge and technology needed to develop and place a new drug to the market. Despite the often very challenging business and regulatory conditions needed for successful technology transfer, and with considerably high risks of investments the pharmaceutical industry is investing billions of dollars and thousands of working hours of educated personnel while encouraging medical progress with the purpose of improving the quality of life. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to explain the concept and process of technology transfer in the pharmaceutical industry while explaining the underlying factors that make the final success. For the purpose of clear interpretation of the whole process, examples of successful technology transfer case studies in the pharmaceutical industry are given. An analysis of the current situation in the world with the focus on Europe was conducted in order to confirm both theoretical and analytical part, and defined research hypotheses.