Sampat, Bhaven N.; Mowery, David C.; Ziedonis, Arvids A. - 2006
The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 facilitated the retention by universities of patent rights resulting from government funded … paper, we revisit this influential finding. By using a longer stream of patent citations data, we show that the results of … implications not only for the evaluation of Bayh-Dole, but also for future research using patent citations as economic indicators …