Innovative firms rely increasingly on academic science, yet they exploit only a small fraction
of all academic discoveries. Which discoveries in academia do firms build upon? We posit …

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 …

This study examines the effect of antitrust regulation of patent consolidation on the
development of follow-on innovations. Our reconciliation of the various strains of literature …

This study empirically tests the relationship between regulation and innovation in the
telecommunications sector by deploying an efficient panel threshold model. The balanced …

In an attempt to increase revenues from patenting activities, some universities have started
in recent years to pursue “overzealous” strategies to monetize their existing patents, by …

Since its launch, open innovation has been one of the hottest research topics in the field of
innovation management. However, most of the current literature focuses on open innovation …

Academic patenting has become an important part of the university-industry collaboration
and technology transfer but few studies have investigated the institutional frameworks and …

As university involvement in technology transfer and entrepreneurship has increased,
concerns over the patenting and licensing of scientific discoveries have grown. This paper …

Exclusivity is a key concern when designing a licensing contract, yet the organizational
factors that influence the exclusive provision of university licenses remain underexplored …

Innovation is cumulative in nature, and follow-on innovation is a way to extract value from
existing technology. Thus, to appropriate the value of standard essential patents (SEPs) …