A growing stream of the academic literature has investigated the factors that hamper the
participation of women researchers in patenting and commercialization activities; however …

Purpose–This chapter explores the actual situation of women as patent originators in the
European Union (EU) and provides insights into the innovation climate in companies by …

We analyzed gender disparities in patenting by country, technological area, and type of
assignee using the 4.6 million utility patents issued between 1976 and 2013 by the United …

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

The under-representation of women in science and technology is a matter of current great
concern. Obtaining patent-based indicators by gender is crucial to analyse the situation of …

Analyzing the domestic patent records filed with the United State Patent and Trademark
Office (USPTO) in the 16-year time period from 1990 to 2005, this study benchmarks the …

This work investigates the determinants of patenting at Italian universities. We test the effect
of public and external funds, in terms of commercial activity by universities, towards the …

Most of the literature on university patenting activity has focused on institutional and
organizational change and on mechanisms to overcome market inefficiencies and spur …

Over the past 20 years, European universities have increased their propensity to retain title
of their faculty's inventions, but evidence on the value of such patents is at best mixed …

This paper provides evidence that university-industry collaboration is important for turning
commercial opportunities into patents. The results suggest that researchers who receive a …