Commercialization of university inventions: Individual and institutional factors affecting licensing of university patents

Technovation

Volumn 36, Issue , 2015, Pages 12-25

  Wu, Yonghong ^a   Welch, Eric W ^b   Huang, Wan Ling ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Licensing; Patent; Research commercialization; University invention

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR REACTOR LICENSING; SERVICE INDUSTRY; SURVEYS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

ACADEMIC SCIENTISTS; COLLABORATION WITH INDUSTRIES; INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS; PATENT; RESEARCH COMMERCIALIZATIONS; UNIVERSITY INVENTIONS; UNIVERSITY PATENTS; UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OFFICES;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 84922477252     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2014.09.004     Document Type: Article

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