Although the use of patent indicators in statistics has been under discussion for a long time, there are surprisingly … very few studies devoted to explaining the use of patent indicators as performance indicators in performance-based research … performance indicators. However, there is still no established distinction in the literature between patent indicators used in …

as key-words "university", "patent", "license", "Bayh-Dole", "triple helix" and by an abstract-by-abstract reading of all …

patents. These include: the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980; the extension of the maximum patent term in 1994; and the shift from a … indirectly, and have coincided with historic increases in patent activity among academic institutions.This article presents an … empirical study of how those three changes to the patent system precipitated responses by academic institutions, using spline …

university creates its own patent regulation, there is a 9% increase in the likelihood that universities without any internal … patent regulation will adopt one. Implications for university technology transfer policies are discussed …

We use patent applications and their extensions filed by Italian Universities between 1965 and 2002 to analyze their …

output. Research units that source research ideas from small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) patent more, but not more …

test case is the patent examination process, with numerous commentators arguing that scientific peer review can solve … informational deficits in patent determinations. We present results from a novel randomized field experiment, carried out over the … course of three years, in which 336 prominent scientific experts agreed to provide input on U.S. patent applications. Their …

to obtain patent rights in hopes that the patent incentive will foster commercialization, as well as generate revenues to … patent and licensing practices. Specific suggestions to modify the currently proposed regulations are provided …