supported in a framework where patent protection for minor incremental innovations is not allowed. The study also suggests that … necessary to grant and sustain compulsory licenses/government use. If patent applications were correctly scrutinized, there …

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 …