Jaffe, Adam B; Fogarty, Michael S; Banks, Bruce A - In: Journal of Industrial Economics 46 (1998) 2, pp. 183-205
Federal lab commercialization is explored (1) by analyzing U.S. government patents and (2) in a qualitative analysis of one NASA lab's patents. Tests apply to three distinct sets of patents, l963-94: NASA, all other U.S. government, and a random sample of all U.S. inventors' patents. The federal...