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

postdoctoral scholars contribute equally to patent activity or whether there is a differential effect depending upon visa status …. We find patent counts relate positively and significantly to the number of faculty, number of PhD students and number of …

. 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 …

rapid growth in terms of quantity while patent quality did not increase to a similar degree. Regarding the second objective …, we find that a subsidy program to promote research excellence at selected universities is a significant driver of patent … quantity and quality. In contrast, a subsidy program that decreases the costs of patent applications seems to enhance patent …

engineering science academics in Germany, we find consulting to be widespread, undertaken by academics at all seniority levels and …

result varies with the technological class of the patent, the presence and age of a technology transfer office within the …

standardized federal policy to allow grant recipients to patent resulting inventions, Senator Russell Long called it “one of the … through patent law in fact serve public values? From this social welfare perspective, could the Bayh–Dole framework be …