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...

Historically, commercial use of university research has been viewed in terms of spillovers. Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in technology transfer through licensing as universities attempt to appropriate the returns from faculty research. This change has prompted concerns regarding...

We provide theoretical and empirical evidence on the factors that influence the willingness of academic scientists to share research results. We distinguish between two types of sharing, specific sharing in which a researcher shares her data or materials with another and general sharing in which...

Licensing of university inventions to industry has experienced rapid, recent growth. This growth is cited as evidence of university success in technology transfer and it suggests an increasing importance of universities to innovation systems. Concerns have been raised that universities are...