Theories of entrepreneurship have proposed that universities play an important role in fostering entrepreneurial rates. While extant research has mainly focused on universities' structural and institutional influences on entrepreneurship, relatively less attention has been devoted to...

This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty inventions, and compare two institutional regimes; the US and Sweden. In the US, the Bayh Dole Act gives universities the right to own inventions from publicly funded research,...