University research is increasingly importantfor industrial innovation. Licensing provides an incentive for both faculty andcompanies to undertake the development of federally-funded ideas and theirtransfer to industry. However, skeptics question the effects of licensing onthe conduct of...

Contrary to popular belief, it is intellectual capital and university collaboration, not just lower costs, that primarily attract companies to locate R&D activities in locations away from their home country, according to a study sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The study of...

This paper presents a theoretical model of faculty consulting in the context of government and industry funding for research within the university, which then frames an empirical analysis of the funding and consulting of 458 individual faculty inventors from 8 major US universities. In the...

Invention licensing is approached from theperspective of firms engaged in licensing technology. A survey of industrylicensing professionals was conducted, including 112 businesses that activelylicense university technologies and 188 that do not. The early stage of mostuniversity technologies is...

University technology transfer offices (TTOs), whichfacilitate and manage the disclosure and licensing of inventions withcommercial potential, must balance the objectives of the university that ownsthe inventions and those of the faculty who create them.A theoreticalmodel of disclosure and...

The 1990s witnessed a dramatic increase in thelicensing activity of U.S. research universities.The sources of thisincrease, as well as the possibility that such an increase signals a change inthe nature of university research, warrant investigation.Thisinvestigation requires a model of...