Using a unique survey of scientists at a large public research organization, this paper examines the effects of …

from greater patent applications, more time spent on consulting by the researcher and from participation in European …

patenting behavior of academic scientists. We develop and test a model that predicts how individual characteristics (tenure … factors (university royalty policy, departmental patent culture, and TTO professionalism, activeness, and profit drive) affect … individual patenting activity (discrete indicator of having a patent and count of university patents). Data from a national …

Patent law is intended to promote the creativity of scientists and engi-neers. The system recognizes that the work of …, theoretical and doc-trinal heart of patent law. Yet the field has not meaningfully evaluated the fundamental question of what …-poses how patent law can formulate a legal conception of creativity.To undertake this inquiry, this work focuses on the U …

theoretically that the risk of a scientist's departure raises the firm's propensity to patent an innovation and reduces its research … expenditures, which is confirmed in our empirical study of firm-level panel data. Our results suggest that the scientists' turnover … partly explains cross-industry patenting variation, recent increases in patenting, and why small firms have high patent …