Disadvantages of patent performance indicators in performance-based research funding systems
Ivan Vershinin
Although the use of patent indicators in statistics has been under discussion for a long time, there are surprisingly very few studies devoted to explaining the use of patent indicators as performance indicators in performance-based research funding systems. The widespread assumption is based on the perception that patents have some recognizable value as an element of innovation process and this value is undoubtedly transferred to patents that are created in order to fulfill performance indicators. However, there is still no established distinction in the literature between patent indicators used in statistical analysis and patent performance indicators used as goal setting and evaluation tools in the context of performance-based research funding systems. This article is aimed at filling the gap and seeks to clarify the theoretical validity of the use of patent performance indicators in such context. Based on the review of the literature, the article compares the results of seminal works on the nature of patenting and patent indicators to the purposes of its use as patent performance indicators in performance-based research funding systems. The results demonstrate at least five arguments in favor of the statement that the use of patent indicators in the context of performance-based research funding systems requires rethinking.
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2021
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Authors: | Vershinin, Ivan |
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Scientific papers of the University of Pardubice. - Pardubice : University of Pardubice, Faculty of Economics & Administration, ISSN 1804-8048, ZDB-ID 2688717-4. - Vol. 29.2021, 2, Art.-No. 1341, p. 1-13
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Subject: | Research policy | Performance-based research funding systems | Public research organizations | Performance indicators | Patent indicators | Side effects | Moral hazard | Patent | Technologiepolitik | Technology policy | Performance-Messung | Performance measurement | Forschungsfinanzierung | Research funding | Industrieforschung | Industrial research | Moral Hazard | Universitäre Forschung | University research | Theorie | Theory | Bibliometrie | Bibliometrics |
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freely available
Type of publication: | Article |
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Type of publication (narrower categories): | Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 10.46585/sp29021341 [DOI] |
Classification: | I23 - Higher Education Research Institutions ; I28 - Government Policy ; O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; O34 - Intellectual Property Rights: National and International Issues ; O38 - Government Policy |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012672173
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