Kenney, Martin; Patton, Donald - In: Research Policy 38 (2009) 9, pp. 1407-1422
The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 provided U.S. universities with the right to commercialize employees' inventions made while engaged in government-funded research. This paper argues that the current university invention ownership model, in which universities maintain de jure ownership of inventions, is...