European countries over four decades (1980-2019), using citation records and patent quality indicators from OECD/STI Micro …

quality) than their European counterparts after patent rights for software inventions were introduced. We then introduce a …

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 …

the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universities to retain patent rights over …

. Our evidence, which builds on a database that matches research institutions to a sample of their patent applications …, indicates patent applications to the European Patent Office (EPO) filed by research institutions grew faster than industry … patent applications remains low and their ratio of patents granted to applications is below that of industry. An econometric …

linkages between network embeddedness and innovation activities have been largely explored, the impact on patent quality in …

The paper studies the patent productivity of scientists over their life cycle. The incentives for patenting and for … at the end of the scientific career. In contrast, the analytical model given here suggests an increase of patent … productivity over the life time. In the empirical part the patents of nearly 1000 German patent active professors are analyzed. The …