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 …

The increasing commercialization of university discoveries has initiated a controversy on the
impact for scientific research. It has been argued that an increasing orientation towards …

The growing importance of technology-relevant non-publication output of university research
has come into the focus of policy-makers' interest. A fierce debate arose on possible …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to look at the sharp increase in academic patenting
over the past 20 years and to raise important issues regarding the generation and diffusion …

This paper surveys the existing fragmentary data on the growth of university-owned patents
and university-invented patents in Europe. We find evidence that university patenting is …

A central theme of university entrepreneurship—including the generation and
commercialization of university-invented research—is academic patenting (referring to …

Using a unique survey of scientists at a large public research organization, this paper
examines the effects of industry interactions on academic patenting. Two types of …

The paper presents an empirical study on the relationship between academic researchers'
patenting and publishing activities, based upon a sample of patent applications and …

Increasing entrepreneurial activity within academia has raised concerns that the number of
publications added to the scientific commons might be reduced or that academic research …

The paper compares the value and impact of academic patents in five European countries
with different institutional frameworks: Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden …