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

of economic benefit by patent applications filed and granted. Interrogating the effect of targeted funding at a … university level we find award of U-I targeted grants coincides with increased patent activity compared to non-targeted grants …. Exploring the dynamics of the relationship, we observe the effect of U-I targeted grants on patent activity is short lived at an …

linkages between network embeddedness and innovation activities have been largely explored, the impact on patent quality in … terms of radicalness, originality and generality remains rather unclear. Considering Germany's diverse public research …

The paper compares academic and corporate patents in Germany to shed light on the geographical distribution of the …

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 …

participate in the secondary market for patents. We document 220 assignments, involving a total of 544 U.S. patent assets, that … appear to represent arms-length patent sales by universities (or other nonprofit research institutes) during the period 2012 … are almost entirely absent from the market. We also find that few academic U.S. patent sales bear the hallmarks of …

Foundation (NSF), patents issued by the United States Patent Office (USPTO) to U.S. academic institutions more than doubled from …

. 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 …