The impact of university patenting and licensing onuniversity research, as well as the development of commercial agriculturalbiotech products, is examined.With the passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in1980, universities were given the opportunity to patent and/or licenseinnovations that result from...

Collaboration over distance is difficult to maintain in innovation projects which require a great deal of regional collaboration. However, patent documents reveal that a number of inventor teams are able to overcome long distances. Earlier literature started to investigate factors, which...

The paper compares academic and corporate patents in Germany to shed light on the geographical distribution of the inventors. The residences of the inventors show different patterns in the two datasets. Furthermore, we analyze the spatial distance between inventors for patents invented in...