Die vorliegende Arbeit, die sich aus vier eigenständigen Studien zusammensetzt, beschäftigt sich mit der Lizenzierung und Kommerzialisierung von Erfindungen aus öffentlichen Forschungseinrichtungen. Für die empirischen Analysen werden detaillierte Datensätze der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft...

In contemporary academia and industry, the commercialization of technology through licensing has emerged as a prevalent strategy. This paradigmatic shift has prompted numerous industrial firms to intensify their focus on technology commercialization as a mechanism to optimize the returns on...

We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent rights influence academic entrepreneurship. In 2002, the German Federal Government enacted a major reform called Knowledge Creates Markets that set up new infrastructure to...

We examine how the ownership of intellectual property rights influences patenting of university-discovered inventions. In 2002, Germany transferred patent rights from faculty members to their universities. To identify the effect on the volume of patenting, we exploit the researcher-level...