Growth and productive efficiency of university intellectual property licensing

Research Policy

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 109-124

  Thursby, Jerry G ^a   Kemp, Sukanya ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Economics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Commercial activity; Licensing; Productivity; US universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244432409     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-7333(00)00160-8     Document Type: Article

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