Foreign-born academic scientists have been consistently shown to be more productive than
the native-born in the United States with regard to research and patents. However, no study …

Innovation productivity of expatriate researchers and human capital that empowers them is
an important issue; however, with a scarcity of relevant data, formal empirical evidence has …

This study examines and characterizes the way foreign‐born academic scientists interact
with private firms. Using status characteristics theory, this inquiry explores how foreign‐born …

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 …

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

We describe the construction of a panel data set from the US patent data that contains
measures of inventors' life-cycle R&D productivity—patents and patent citations. We match …

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 …

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

My dissertation research focuses on the routes of commercializing university related
technology. My first essay investigates whether patents assigned to US universities largely …

We explore the impact of migrant inventors on patent quality in Europe and the United States
between 1990 and 2010. Drawing on a large sample of patent applications filed at the …