We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent … of patent rights from university researchers to their universities. Based on a novel researcher-level panel database that … increase in start-up companies by university researchers. The shift in patent rights may have strengthened the relationship …

This paper analyses the development of universities' patent applications in Germany before and after the abolition of … the 'professors' privilege' in 2002. By means of a database with all patent applications of German universities with … legislation is found only for universities without patent activities in the past. This indicates the importance of collecting …

national incentives for patent protection? What is the rationale for international coordination over patent policies? Given …

of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but … more sensitive to uncertainty. Commitment to EPs also increases the incentives for patent duplication. The magnitude of the …

inventors, the technological profiles of firms and patent value. In particular, this paper focuses on the value of academic … patent belongs to a core or non-core technology relative to the firm's technological profile neutralizes the premium of non …

all cases the lab is required to take the responsibility for any patent infringement liability. No lab would willfully … interpretation of patent infringements by US courts, aggressive patenting strategies of MNCs, globalisation of operations by Indian …

All forms of intellectual property may be necessary for the effective commercialization of a patent. Nevertheless …, while the Bayh-Dole Act is an explicit recognition by Congress of the need to allocate patent rights in order to promote a … policy of commercializing the products of federal research funding, it is silent on other salient intellectual patent rights …