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 …

Using new data on citations to university patents and scientific publications, we study how geography affects … university knowledge spillovers. Citations to patents decline sharply with distance up to about 150 miles and are strongly …

individually-owned patents in the U.S., we exploit variation in capital gains tax rates as an instrument to identify the causal … reduces litigation risk, on average. The impact of trade on litigation is heterogeneous, however. Patents with larger …

capture the indirect knowledge spillovers generated by patents. We find that conditional on a wide range of potential … confounding factors clean patents receive on average 43% more citations than dirty patents. Knowledge spillovers from clean …

regimes. The results point to an important role for patents and other policy choices in driving the diffusion of new …

Federal Circuit (CAFC) affected the duration of patent disputes, and thus the speed of technology diffusion through licensing …