We examine ownership patterns of German university-invented patents before and after the abolition of the "professors …-owned and firm-owned patents to university-owned patents, which becomes increasingly strong over the years. Differences in the …

patents as compared to non-academic patents, owned by large firms based in Sweden. One finding is that academic patents have a …-academic patents. In other words, patents belonging to firms' core technologies have significantly higher value, regardless of whether … they are academic or non-academic patents. The above results indicate that the technological profile of firms is an …

scientific assignee and which are owned by corporate entities. Our findings suggest that faculty patents assigned to corporations …. Faculty patents assigned to academic inventors or to public research institutions, in contrast, are more complex, more basic …