Patent pendencies create uncertainty in research and development (R&D) collaboration agreements, resulting in a threat …

We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent … of patent rights from university researchers to their universities. Based on a novel researcher-level panel database that … increase in start-up companies by university researchers. The shift in patent rights may have strengthened the relationship …

. In 2002, Germany transferred patent rights from faculty members to their universities. To identify the effect on the …