The paper compares academic and corporate patents in Germany to shed light on the geographical distribution of the … distance between inventors for patents invented in collaboration and give insights into the distance' s change over a time … period of 14 years. The distance between collaborating inventors of corporate patents exceeds that of inventors of academic …

This paper analyses the development of universities' patent applications in Germany before and after the abolition of … the 'professors' privilege' in 2002. By means of a database with all patent applications of German universities with … legislation is found only for universities without patent activities in the past. This indicates the importance of collecting …

We examine ownership patterns of German university-invented patents before and after the abolition of the "professors …-owned and firm-owned patents to university-owned patents, which becomes increasingly strong over the years. Differences in the … patent experience of inventors and universities further help explain the variance in ownership patterns. Both experienced and …

policy debates recently. Based on a sample of German scientists we investigate which academic inventions are patented by a … scientific assignee and which are owned by corporate entities. Our findings suggest that faculty patents assigned to corporations …. Faculty patents assigned to academic inventors or to public research institutions, in contrast, are more complex, more basic …