of invention disclosure. Interestingly, entrepreneurial intent to start a business did not have a significant main effect …

least one invention, only 4,5% of the sample are engaged in commercialization activities. Therefore the vast majority of …

In this paper, we present the results of a network analysis applied to academic patent data in a subsector of the … chemical field in Italy in the period 2000–2011. In particular, we analyse the micro-level interactions to point out the … propriety rights. Type A (open science) exemplifies the typical owned patent; type B (multiple ties) represents the hybrid …

patents. These include: the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980; the extension of the maximum patent term in 1994; and the shift from a … indirectly, and have coincided with historic increases in patent activity among academic institutions.This article presents an … empirical study of how those three changes to the patent system precipitated responses by academic institutions, using spline …

Few papers address the issue of faculty motivations to patent, and none comprehensively investigates why faculty decide … not to patent. To fill this gap, I surveyed Italian faculty inventors of university-owned patents (N = 208), and … noninventors working in the same disciplines (N = 416). Major motivations to patent are prestige/reputation and knowledge exchange …

microdata. We find that invention and manufacturing developed similarly in cities closer to and farther from universities in the …