Autori: Montobbio, Fabio, Lissoni, Francesco
Titolo: The ownership of academic patents and their impact. Evidence from five European countries
Periodico: Università degli Studi di Torino. Dip. Di Economia e Statistica Cognetti de Martiis LEI & BRICK - Lab. Di economia dell'innovazione 'Franco Momigliano', Bureau of Research in Innovation, Complexity and Knowledge, Collegio Carlo Alberto. WP series
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 12 - Fascicolo: 20 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 28

This paper compares the value and impact of academic patents in five different European countries with different institutional frameworks: Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden. Ownership patterns of academic patents are found to: (i) diff er greatly across country, due to a combination of legal norms on IP and institutional features of the unive rsity system; (ii) be strongly associated to academic patents' value, as measured by patent citations. Company-owned academic patents tend to be as cited as non-academic ones, while university-owned tend to b e less cited. Academic patents in the Netherlands are more cited than non-academic ones, irrespective to their ownership, while university-owned patents get fewer citations in both France and Italy. We propose an explanation of these results based on the different autonomy and experience in dealing with IP and technology transfer enjoyed by universities in the countries considered. We also find that company-owned academic patents in Sweden get many fewer citations than non-academic. Individually-owned aca demic patents are more cited than non-academic patents similarly owned by their inventors.




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