. Although the studies on academic entrepreneurship and university patenting have substantially increased, first there have not … patenting and entrepreneurship, and develop these factors into a tentative framework. It is our hope that this framework is …

This paper develops a game-theoretic model that predicts when a university invention is commercialized in a start … a start-up, or the inventor's effort cost in development is lower in a start-up. We test the theory using data from the … with the predictions of our theory …