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Universities as a Source of Commercial Technology: A Detailed Analysis of University Patenting, 1965–1988

Year: 1998

Type: article

Abstract: This paper explores the recent explosion in university patenting as a source of insight into the changing relationship between the university and the private sector. Before the mid-1980s, university patents were more highly cited, and were cited by more diverse patents, than a random sample of all patents. More recently several significant shifts in university patenting behavior have led to the disappearance of this difference. Thus our results suggest that between 1965 and 1988 the rate of increase of important patents from universities was much less than their overall rate of increase of patenting.

Source: The Review of Economics and Statistics

DOI: 10.1162/003465398557221

Authors: Rebecca Henderson, Adam B. Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg

Institutions: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brandeis University, Tel Aviv University, National Bureau of Economic Research

Language: English

Topic: Intellectual Property and Patents

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2891782533

FWCI: 87.37

Cites: 24

Cited by: 1,304

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