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 …

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 …