Determines whether faculty members engaged inpatenting activity publish less than their non-inventor colleagues and examineswhether inventors' publications differ from those of non-inventors. Data from adetailed analysis of the publication and patenting activities of facultymembers at the...

Increasing entrepreneurial activity within academia has raised concerns that the amount of publications added to the scientific commons might become reduced or that academic research would become directed exclusively towards the application-oriented needs of industry. In the case of academic...