This paper presents empirical evidence of the relationship between faculty entrepreneurial
activity—quantified in terms of the propensity of US university faculty to work directly with …

This study expands the scope of research on academic entrepreneurship to include
academic inventors who actively engage in late-stage commercialization. It investigates post …

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

This study explores why academic entrepreneurs seek patents for spin-off technology in
weak organizational regimes (the employee owns her inventions) and strong organizational …

We examine the individual, contextual, and institutional determinants of faculty patenting
behavior in a panel dataset of 3862 academic life scientists. Using discrete time hazard rate …

Despite the increasing importance of faculty entrepreneurship to technology diffusion,
wealth creation, and economic growth, we know little about the effects that academic faculty …

Is the Bayh-Dole intellectual property regime associated with more and better academic
entrepreneurship than the Professor's Privilege regime? The authors examine data on US …

This article contributes to an important literature on the determinants of academic patenting.
We develop and test a model that predicts how individual characteristics and organizational …

Entrepreneurial behavior by professors—including decisions about collaboration with
industry, patenting and spinning off companies—can affect the productivity of top …

This paper examines how institutional, locational and individual characteristics of university
scientists influence patent inventions. The paper illustrates why and how some scientists …