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Universities’ centrality within the public research systems has been increasing over time, as it has their interactions with industry. Such interaction poses two dilemmas. One concerns individual scientists and the potential trade-off between basic research activities and those activities...
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This work attempts to examine how the global financial crisis has affected the education sector and more specifically, universities. So our paper examines the universities public funding especially in Europe, the mobility of teaching staff, students etc. Also the impact of the financial crisis...
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We develop a model based on asymmetric information (adverse selection) that provides a rational explanation for the persistent use of royalties alongside equity in university technology transfer. The model shows how royalties, through their value-destroying distortions, can act as a screening...
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In this paper I analyze the correlation between the licensing activity by start-ups and established firms (mainly in the biotech sector) and the inventions’ stages of development. Using data from the San Diego region on licensing new technologies and a new variable to characterize the...
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implementing a review of patent strategy and technology transfer processes, improvement of technology transfer skills, and …
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This paper proposes a model of the choice to commercialize research and of the amount and type of pre-commercial research to perform, of the timing of commercialization by an academic scientist, and analyzes the returns and costs of these choices. The behavior and performance of the academic...
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The transfer of knowledge and technology from academia to industry is usually understood as a process. While previous research focuses on phenomena along the process and its outcomes, the starting point of the process - the initiation of a transfer activity - remains unstudied. We provide first...
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than evaluating a single program, we estimate the impact of R&D subsidies on start-ups’ employment growth and their patent …%. Furthermore, subsidized start-ups show a 2.8 times higher patent output. These estimates provide evidence for the additionality of …-offs which excels in the novelty of business ideas and patent activity. For some of these high-tech start-ups, no non …
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commercialized as well as whether this commercialization was profitable or not. Thus, this patent database measures technological … innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family …
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on startup companies and the patent system. The study consisted of a survey, which led to primarily quantitative data, as … overriding characterization of how startups use and are affected by the patent system …
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