Incentives and assistance provided by TTOs, university policies, patent legislation and scientific disciplines are … related to the scientists' motives, expectations and perceptions about the importance and necessity of such activities. There … relatively under-researched theme. Our findings suggest that scientists are rarely engage in patenting activities for economic …

We estimate the relative contribution of mobile scientists who leave academia for the private sector on the subsequent … 1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … Office. We compare the efficacy of mobile former university scientists to the effects of mobile workers hired from other …

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 …