modified for academic organizations. -- leadership effect ; technology commercialization … observed in academia by examining the commercialization behavior of academic scientists. The empirical analysis is based on … panel data of commercialization for the period of 1980 - 2004 within the Max Planck Society, a leading research organization …

This study addresses the determinants of time-to-licensing, defined as the elapsed time between the disclosure of an … invention and the signed licensing contract, and its impact on the commercial success of the licensed inventions from public … research. Using a dataset containing detailed information on the licensing activities of the Max Planck Society, I do not find …