A new industry creation and originality: Insight from the funding sources of university patents

Research Policy

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1697-1706

  Guerzoni, Marco ^a   Aldridge, T Taylor ^b   Audretsch, David B ^c   Desai, Sameeksha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON SOCIETY AND SPACE   (Germany)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic patenting; Originality; Research funding; University industry relations

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; DISEASES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ACADEMIC PATENTING; KNOWLEDGE CREATIONS; ORIGINALITY; PATENT PROTECTION; RESEARCH FUNDING; SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH; UNIVERSITY PATENTS; UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY RELATIONS;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 84927697163     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2014.07.009     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Adams, J. D., 1990. Fundamental stocks of knowledge and productivity growth. Journal of Political Economy 98(4), 673-702.
2. Agrawal, A., Henderson, R., 2002. Putting patents in context: Exploring knowledge transfer from MIT. Management Science 48(1), 44-60.
3. Aldridge, T., Audretsch, D., 2011. The Bayh-Dole act and scientist entrepreneurship. Research Policy 40(8), 1058-1067.
4. Arrow, K., 1962. The economic implications of learning by doing. The Review of Economic Studies 29(3), 155-173.
5. Audretsch, D., Aldridge, T., 2006. The knowledge filter and economic growth: the role of scientist entrepreneurship. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 67.
6. Baker, D., 2008. Financing drug research: what are the issues? In: 2008 Industry Studies Conference Paper.
7. Cohen, W. M., Levinthal, DA, 1989. Innovation and learning: the two faces of R & D. The Economic Journal 99(397), 569-596.
8. Cohen, W., Nelson, R., Walsh, J., 2002. Links and impacts: the influence of public research on industrial R&D. Management Science 48(1), 1-23.
9. Collier, R. B., Collier, D., 1991. Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
10. Crespi, G. A., Geuna, A., 2006. The Productivity of UK Universities (No. 147). SPRU-Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex.
11. Czarnitzki, D., Glänzel, W., Hussinger, K., 2007. Patent and publication activities of German professors: an empirical assessment of their co-activity. Research Evaluation 16(4), 311-319.
12. Czarnitzki, D., Hussinger, K., Schneider, C, 2011. Commercializing academic research: the quality of faculty patenting. Industrial and Corporate Change 20(5), 1403-1437.
13. David, P., 1985. Clio and the economics of QWERTY. The American Economic Review 75(2), 332-337.
14. Dosi, G., 1982. Technological paradigms and technological trajectories: a suggested interpretation of the determinants and directions of technical change. Research Policy 11(3), 147-162.
15. Dosi, G., 1988. Sources, procedures, and microeconomic effects of innovation. Journal of Economic Literature 26(3), 1120-1171.
16. Ertman, T., 1996. Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
17. Garfield, E., 1979. Citation Indexing: Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology, and Humanities, vol. 8. Wiley, New York.
18. Geuna, A., 1998. The internationalisation of European universities: a return to medieval roots. Minerva 36(3), 253-270.
19. Geuna, A., 2001. The changing rationale for European university research funding: are there negative unintended consequences? Journal of Economic Issues 35(3), 607-632.
20. Geuna, A., Nesta, L., 2006. University patenting and its effects on academic research: the emerging European evidence. Research Policy 35(6), 790-807.
21. Goldfarb, B., Henrekson, M., 2003. Bottom-up versus top-down policies towards the commercialization of university intellectual property. Research Policy 32(4), 639-658.
22. Griliches, Z., 1990. Patent statistics as economic indicators: a survey. Journal of Economic Literature 28(4), 1661-1707.
23. Gulbrandsen, M., Smeby, J., 2005. Industry funding and university professors' research performance. Research Policy 34(6), 932-950.
24. Hacker, J., 1998. The historical logic of national health insurance: structure and sequence in the development of British, Canadian, and U. S. medical policy. Studies in American Political Development 12(Spring), 57-130.
25. Hall, B., Jaffe, A., Trajtenberg, M., 2001. The NBER Patent Citation Data File: Lessons, Insights and Methodological Tools. NBER Working Paper 8498.
26. Henderson, R., 1993. Underinvestment and incompetence as responses to radical innovation: evidence from the photolithographic alignment equipment industry. The RAND Journal of Economics 24(2(Summer)), 248-270.
27. Henderson, R., Jaffe, A., Trajtenberg, M., 1998. Universities as a source of commercial technology: a detailed analysis of university patenting, 1965-1988. Review of Economics and Statistics 80(1), 119-127.
28. Jaffe, A. B., Fogarty, M. S., Banks, B. A., 1998. Evidence from patents and patent citations on the impact of NASA and other federal labs on commercial innovation. The Journal of Industrial Economics 46(2), 183-205.
29. Jaffe, A., Trajtenberg, M., Romer, P., 2005. Patents, Citations and Innovations: A Window on the Knowledge Economy. MIT Press.
30. Kilger, C, Bartenbach, K., 2002. New rules for German professors. Science 298(5596), 1173-1175.
31. Levin, S., Stephan, P., 1991. Research productivity over the life cycle: evidence for academic scientists. The American Economic Review 81(1), 114-132.
32. Lichtenberg, F., 2001. Are the benefits of newer drugs worth their cost? Evidence from the 1996 MEPS. Health Affairs 20. 5, 241-251.
33. Lichtenberg, F., 2007. The impact of new drugs on US longevity and medical expenditure, 1990-2003: evidence from longitudinal, disease-level data. The American Economic Review 97(2), 438-443.
34. Lipset, S. M., Rokkan, S., 1967. Party Systems and Voter Alignments. Free Press, New York, pp. 1-64.
35. Lindsey, D., 1989. Using citation counts as a measure of quality in science measuring what's measurable ratherthan what's valid. Scientometrics 15(3), 189-203.
36. Malerba, F., Nelson, R., Orsenigo, L., Winter, S., 2007. Demand, innovation, and the dynamics of market structure: the role of experimental users and diverse preferences. Journal of Evolutionary Economics 17(4), 371-399.
37. Mansfield, E., 1991. Academic research and industrial innovation. Research Policy 20(1), 1-12.
38. Marco, A., 2006. The dynamics of patent citations. Economics Letters 94(2), 290-296.
39. Markman, G., Gianiodis, P., Phan, P., 2008. Full-time faculty or part-time entrepreneurs. Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on 55(1), 29-36.
40. Martin, B., 2003. The changing social contract for science and the evolution of the university. In: Science and Innovation: Rethinking the Rationales for Funding and Governance. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 7-29.
41. Martin, S., Scott, J., 2000. The nature of innovation market failure and the design of public support for private innovation. Research Policy 29(4-5), 437-447.
42. Merton, R., 1973. The normative structure of science. The Sociology of Science 267, 275-277.
43. Mowery, D., Nelson, R., Sampat, B., Ziedonis, A., 2001. The growth of patenting and licensing by US universities: an assessment of the effects of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. Research Policy 30(1), 99-119.
44. Mowery, D., Ziedonis, A. A., 2000. Numbers, quality, and entry: how has the Bayh-Dole Act affected US university patenting and licensing? Innovation Policy and the Economy, 187-220.
45. Mowery, D., Ziedonis, A. A., 2002. Academic patent quality and quantity before and after the Bayh-Dole act in the US. Research Policy 31(3), 399-418.
46. Nelson, R., 1959. The simple economics of basic scientific research. The Journal of Political Economy 67(3), 297-306.
47. Nelson, R., Winter, S., 1982. An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Belknap Press, Cambridge.
48. Nightingale, P., 2000. Economies of scale in experimentation: knowledge and technology in pharmaceutical R&D. Industrial and Corporate Change 9(2), 315-359.
49. Pakes, A., Griliches, Z., 1980. Patents and R&D at the firm level: a first report. Economics Letters 5(4), 377-381.
50. Roberts, Royston, M., 1989. Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science. Wiley-VCH, Hoboken, NJ.
51. Sampat, B., Mowery, D., Ziedonis, A., 2003. Changes in university patent quality after the Bayh-Dole act: a re-examination. International Journal of Industrial Organization 21(9), 1371-1390.
52. Schumpeter, JA, 1942. Socialism, Capitalism and Democracy. Harper and Brothers, Oxford, UK.
53. Solow, R., 1967. Some recent developments in the theory of production. In: The Theory and Empirical Analysis of Production. Columbia University Press, New York, US, pp. 25-54.
54. Strandburg, K. J., 2005. Curiosity-driven research and university technology transfer. Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Economic Growth 16, 93-122.
55. Stuart, T., Sorenson, O., 2003. The geography of opportunity: spatial heterogeneity in founding rates and the performance of biotechnology firms. Research Policy 32(2), 229-253.
56. Toole, A., Czarnitzki, D., 2007. Biomedical academic entrepreneurship through the SBIR program. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 63. 4:, 716-738.
57. Thursby, J., Fuller, A., Thursby, M., 2009. US faculty patenting: inside and outside the university. Research Policy 38(1), 14-25.
58. Thursby, J., Thursby, C, 2011. Has the Bayh-Dole act compromised basic research? Research Policy 40. 8:, 1077-1083.
59. Trajtenberg, M., 1990. A penny for your quotes: patent citations and the value of innovations. The RAND Journal of Economics, 172-187.
60. Trajtenberg, M., Henderson, R., Jaffe, A., 1997. University vs corporate patents: a window on the basicness of invention. Economics of Innovation and New Technology 5(1), 19-50.
61. Zucker, L., Darby, M., 1997. Individual action and the demand for institutions star scientists and institutional transformation. American Behavioral Scientist 40(4), 502-513.