1. Introduction: People, tensions and impact in university interactions -- 2. PhDs with industry partners – assessing collaboration and topic distribution using a text mining methodology -- 3. The heterogeneous impact of academic patent characteristics on firms’ economic performance -- 4....

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the impact of academic patenting. On the basis of CV information and two separate surveys, we provide the first empirical evidence for a sample of UK academics in physics, chemistry, computer science and a subset of engineering. The main...

Software patenting in the United States has been a relevant and well regulated phenomenon since the 1980s. On the contrary, the European Union lagged behind for a long time. This work gives an account of the above mentioned topic. The fact that European Patent Convention expressively prohibits...