This paper puts forward new potential determinants of patent value which are related to the
identification of institutional sources of knowledge and the geographic scope of patenting …

Purpose–This paper aims at identifying factors that might affect academic patent activities. It
investigates the characteristics of universities acting on the number of academic patents …

This paper analyzes the association between the number of patenting manufacturing firms
and the quantity and quality of relevant university research across UK postcode areas. Our …

University science parks have been a continued source of interest for scholars and policy
makers due to their potential to aid innovation and consequently regional development …

Using data on patent applications at European Patent Office, we search for trends in
academic patenting in Italy, 1996-2007. During this time, Italian university underwent a …

The multifaceted issues regarding university-industry relations are an increasing focus of
attention of both scholars and practitioners, as a means of enhancing current knowledge …

In 2007 Finland changed ownership rights to inventions from its employees–“the professor's
privilege”–to universities. We investigate how this change affected academic patenting using …

In this study, we explore how the interplay of the quality of university regulations and
regional economic development impacts new patent applications and licensing agreements …

We examine how the ownership of intellectual property rights influences patenting of
university-discovered inventions. In 2002, Germany transferred patent rights from faculty …

The recent increase in patenting by university researchers has concerned observers asking
if these researchers are reducing their production of publications. Access to university-based …