progression of scientific findings through a major university's technology transfer process and 2.) firms' use of the academic …. First, does the patenting of academic research by universities impede its breadth of use by firms? Second, to illustrate how … this measure can advance our understanding of the determinants of firms' use of science generally, we use it to analyze how …

We use the U.S. patent data merged with firm-level datasets to establish new facts about the role of mega firms in … importance of mega firms in novel patents had been declining until about 2000, it has strongly rebounded since then. The timing … of this turnaround coincided with the ascendance of firms that newly became mega firms in the 2000s, and a shift in the …