Even a small enterprise must be active in a world market. But science is not economics. It is a fallacy to think that scientists take the needs of SMEs into account - scientists worry about their careers. They will do something for SMEs if it helps finance their institute or if it can do something for their scientific reputation. If a scientist has a solution, he will look for an SME with the problem.
Technology transfer works exactly the opposite way round.
It is a question of identifying the source of the technology which must, of course, be of high quality. Therefore you must create institutions which have the resources or who can contract their services reliably, but who themselves have no objective other than to arrange the transfer. Their success and their reward must be measured only in terms of their ability to make transfers. By contrast the success of a scientific institute never lies in the transfer, but in the results of its research. This is the dilemma, and it is always glossed over.