The relationship between ownership structure and the quality of academic inventions has
not been deeply analysed, despite its relevance for the literature on IPR and university …

Intellectual property regimes governing university inventions were quite diverse in Europe at
the end of the 1990s. Several European countries maintained the so-called professor's …

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 …

Some recent patent infringement litigations initiated by universities have resulted in multi-
million dollar damages and have attracted public attention and stimulated research …

University–industry collaborations are an important pathway through which academic
scientists engage with industry and society, co-create new knowledge, and raise funds to …

We propose that opposite changes in the hazards of patent commercialization (HPC) and
technology substitution (HTS) lead to a U-shaped relationship between patent age and …

Although numerous public policies have been introduced to incentivize scholars and
researchers employed in universities and public laboratories to generate and transfer …

We investigate how patent quality is correlated with different commercialisation channels for
university patents. A dataset of 2052 university patents, including the market price of patents …

In the same way as patents filed by firms are used as indicators of their innovation potential,
patents held by universities have been increasingly used over the years by funding …

This article presents a comprehensive analysis of science-industry collaborative patents
filed between 1978 and 2015 (granted up to 2020) at the European Patent Office (EPO) in …