The nexus between science and industry. Evidence from faculty inventions.

Autor/inn/en	Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric
Titel	The nexus between science and industry. Evidence from faculty inventions.
Quelle	Mannheim: ZEW Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (2009), 28 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper / ZEW. 09-028
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch; deutsche Zusammenfassung; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Forschung; Wissenstransfer; Erfindung; Technologietransfer; Industrie; Patent; Forschungskooperation; Hochschulforschung; Arbeitspapier; Deutschland
Abstract	Against the background of the so-called "European paradox", i.e. the conjecture that EU countries lack the capability to transfer science into commercial innovations, knowledge transfer from academia to industry has been a central issue in policy debates recently. Based on a sample of German scientists we investigate which academic inventions are patented by a scientific assignee and which are owned by corporate entities. Our findings suggest that faculty patents assigned to corporations exhibit a higher short-term value in terms of forward citations and a higher potential to block property rights of competitors. Faculty patents assigned to academic inventors or to public research institutions, in contrast, are more complex, more basic and have stronger links to science. These results may suggest that European firms lack the absorptive capacity to identify and exploit academic inventions that are further away from market applications.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2009/4