Few papers address the issue of faculty motivations to patent and none comprehensively
investigates why faculties decide not to patent. To fill this gap, I surveyed Italian faculty …

This paper reports results from a survey of 208 Italian faculty members, inventors of
university-owned patents, on their motivation to get involved in university patenting activities …

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

This paper deals with patenting behaviours of university researchers and distinguishes
between two motivations that academic scientists may adopt when dealing with patents: a …

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

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 …

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 …

Despite a worldwide increase in university patenting, empirical studies have largely focused
on analyzing university patenting in individual countries and regions. We provide analyses …

abstract Scientific breakthroughs coming from universities can contribute to the emergence
of new industries, such as in the case of biotechnology. Obviously, not all research …

University-invented patents are often not owned by the university. Empirical knowledge
about factors affecting the ownership of university patents is limited and mainly focuses on …