Changing the academic culture: Valuing patents and commercialization toward tenure and career advancement

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 6542-6547

  Sanberg, Paul R ^a,b   Gharib, Morteza ^c   Harker, Patrick T ^d   Kaler, Eric W ^e   Marchase, Richard B ^f   Sands, Timothy D ^g   Arshadi, Nasser ^h   Sarkar, Sudeep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b National Academy of Inventors   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^g PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Intellectual property; Private partnerships; Promotion; Start ups

Indexed keywords

CAREER; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FUNDING; FUTUROLOGY; HUMAN; INVENTOR; INVESTMENT; LABORATORY; LICENSING; PATENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; REVIEW; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

EID: 84899831792     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1404094111     Document Type: Review

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