Patenting public-funded research for technology transfer. A conceptual-empirical synthesis of US evidence and lessons for India.

Autor/inn/en	Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi
Titel	Patenting public-funded research for technology transfer. A conceptual-empirical synthesis of US evidence and lessons for India.
Quelle	New Delhi: ICRIER (2010), 56 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Working paper / Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. 244
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Vergleich; Forschungspolitik; Technologiepolitik; Patentrecht; Forschungskooperation; Hochschulforschung; Arbeitspapier; Indien; USA
Abstract	The question of protecting intellectual property rights by academic inventors was never seriously contemplated until the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universities to retain patent rights over inventions arising out of federally-funded research and to license those patents exclusively or nonexclusively at their discretion. This particular legislation was a response to the growing oncern over the fact that federally funded inventions in the US were not reaching the market place. In this paper, we present a critical review of the US experience after the Bayh-Dole Act and argue that the evidence is far from being unambiguous. We discuss the debate surrounding the Act - the extent to which it was successful in achieving its objectives, the unintended consequences, if any, and more generally, the effectiveness of IPR as a vehicle of technology transfer from universities. We also discuss the limited evidence on Bayh-Dole type legislations introduced in other countries. A new legislation, along the lines of the US Bayh-Dole Act - The Protection and Utilisation of Public Funded IP Bill, 2008 - is presently before the Indian parliament. The paper presents an Indian perspective against the backdrop of the US experience in an attempt to draw concrete lessons for India.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2011/1