quality) than their European counterparts after patent rights for software inventions were introduced. We then introduce a …

Foundation (NSF), patents issued by the United States Patent Office (USPTO) to U.S. academic institutions more than doubled from …

on a growing range of monetization strategies including selling patents to Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs). We build a …

European countries over four decades (1980-2019), using citation records and patent quality indicators from OECD/STI Micro …

Few papers address the issue of faculty motivations to patent, and none comprehensively investigates why faculty decide … not to patent. To fill this gap, I surveyed Italian faculty inventors of university-owned patents (N = 208), and … noninventors working in the same disciplines (N = 416). Major motivations to patent are prestige/reputation and knowledge exchange …

the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universities to retain patent rights over …

. Our evidence, which builds on a database that matches research institutions to a sample of their patent applications …, indicates patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO) filed by research institutions grew faster than industry … patent applications remains low and their ratio of patents granted to applications is below that of industry. An econometric …

linkages between network embeddedness and innovation activities have been largely explored, the impact on patent quality in …