Abstract The Bayh–Doyle Act of 1980 accelerated academic entrepreneurship in
universities. However, not all qualified researchers sought to be involved in patenting. We …

Abstract Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) can play important roles in university-based
innovation processes, for example, by handling patenting issues and providing advice about …

This paper contributes to the current debate on university patents and knowledge transfer at
two levels. First we present the results of the comparison of European and US academic …

This article examines how the perceived quality of the service provided by technology
transfer offices influences researchers' likelihood to patent their research results. A novel …

Recently, questions about gender gaps in science have extended to academic technology
transfer. Using systematic data on US medical school faculty, we capture both behavior and …

Scientists from universities are becoming more proactive in their efforts to commercialize
research results. Patenting, as an important channel of university knowledge transfer, has …

Women are underrepresented in patenting and the gap is not closing quickly. The challenge
for policy is that the sources of this gap are complex and not well understood. Using a …

Technology ownership and knowledge transfer aim at the dissemination of public research
results, usually in one direction-from the university or public research organisation (PRO) …

The paper provides summary statistics from the KEINS database on academic patenting in
France, Italy, and Sweden. It shows that academic scientists in those countries have signed …

Despite the increasing research on female entrepreneurs, a more substantial
comprehension of women's entrepreneurship in specific environments such as universities …