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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 08-069
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
- Subject
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academic inventors
faculty patenting
patent quality
Öffentliche Forschung
Hochschulforschung
Patentrecht
Erfindung
Produktqualität
Patent
Wissenstransfer
Publikationsanalyse
Deutschland
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Schneider, Cédric
Hussinger, Katrin
Czarnitzki, Dirk
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
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Mannheim
- (when)
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2008
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Schneider, Cédric
- Hussinger, Katrin
- Czarnitzki, Dirk
- Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
Time of origin
- 2008
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