This paper conducts a unique study using the university patent as the unit of analysis to
determine how individual and institutional factors affect the likelihood that a patent will be …

Many research universities engage in efforts to license inventions developed by university-
affiliated inventors. However, no systematic explanation of the conditions under which …

We draw on qualitative data derived from field work on two university campuses to develop
an explanation for widely disparate rates of new invention disclosure. We argue that faculty …

Our study analyzes the patent transactions of the top 58 US universities in the yeas from
2002 to 2010. We find that 37.0% of the patents granted at the United States Patent and …

A significant portion of knowledge generated by university inventors remains latent
(uncodified but codifiable), even though this information is valuable to firms that have …

In a sample of 5811 patents with US faculty as inventors, 26% are assigned solely to firms
rather than universities as dictated by US university employment policies and Bayh-Dole …

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

We compare patenting motives of individual inventors, small firms, and universities to those
of large firms. We use data from a survey (641 responses) among applicants at the …

For most readers of this paper, the striking increase in patenting and licensing activities at
American research universities since the late 1970s is a familiar story. The number of …

This paper describes results of our survey of licensing at 62 research universities. We
consider ownership, income splits, stage of development, marketing, license policies and …