Arbeitspapier

Commercializing Academic Research: The Quality of Faculty Patenting

The knowledge produced by academic scientists has been identified as a potential key driver of technological progress. Recent policies in Europe aim at increasing commercially orientated activities in academe. Based on a sample of German scientists across all fields of science we investigate the importance of academic patenting. Our findings suggest that academic involvement in patenting results in greater knowledge externalities, as academic patents appear to generate more forward citations. We also find that in the European context of changing research objectives and funding sources since the mid-90?s, the ?importance? of academic patents declines over time. We show that academic entrants have patents of lower ?quality? than academic incumbents but they did not cause the decline, since the relative importance of patents involving academics with an existing patenting history declined over time as well. Moreover, a preliminary evaluation of the effects of the abolishment of the ?professor privilege? (the German counterpart of the U.S. Bayh-Dole Act) reveals that this legal disposition led to an acceleration of this apparent decline.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 08-069

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
Thema
academic inventors
faculty patenting
patent quality
Öffentliche Forschung
Hochschulforschung
Patentrecht
Erfindung
Produktqualität
Patent
Wissenstransfer
Publikationsanalyse
Deutschland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Schneider, Cédric
Hussinger, Katrin
Czarnitzki, Dirk
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2008

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Schneider, Cédric
  • Hussinger, Katrin
  • Czarnitzki, Dirk
  • Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)

Entstanden

  • 2008

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