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 …

-academic patents on a set of patent characteristics. The findings point to a negative effect of academic inventors on the technological …This paper analyzes the average effect of academics inventors on the technological importance of firms’ patents …. Drawing on a database of Swedish academic patents, a quasi-experimental design is employed by matching firms’ academic and non …