This paper investigates in an exploratory manner the licensing strategies pursued by firms whose business model is … based on developing and licensing out their intellectual property rights (IPRs). These are not traditional suppliers, since … exists about these IP vendors, there has been no systematic investigation of how they use licensing to appropriate value from …

We study the impact of private ownership, incentive pay and local development objectives on university licensing … performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together … pay than public ones, but ownership does not affect licensing performance conditional on the use of incentive pay …