the Third Mission -- Empirics: Patenting Motives in Basic Science -- Synthesis: Contextual Patent Functions -- Summary. … book highlights how the complex regulatory interplay of the patent system, research policy and self-governed academic … communities creates a situation in which new patent functions emerge: beyond their intended function as a protection for upstream …

science. Based on a sample of more than 1,000 scientists at universities and public research institutes in Germany, this paper … finds that highly credentialed faculty typically chose other funding opportunities than FP6, for example grants from science …