Institutional change and academic patenting: French universities and the Innovation Act of 1999

Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 211-239

  della Malva, Antonio ^a   Lissoni, Francesco ^b   Llerena, Patrick ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Academic inventions; Academic research; Intellectual property; Patents

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872276487     PISSN: 09369937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-011-0243-3     Document Type: Article

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