Commercializing academic research: the quality of faculty patenting

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1403-1437

  Czarnitzki, Dirk ^a,b   Hussinger, Katrin ^a,b,c   Schneider, Cédric ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 80053204013     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtr034     Document Type: Article

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