A cura di:
Dirk Czarnitzki
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW); Catholic University
of Leuven (KUL)
Katrin Hussinger
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW); University
of Maastricht - Department
of Organization & Strategy; Catholic University
of Leuven (KUL)
Cédric Schneider
Copenhagen Business School - Department
of Economics
Articolo in pdf, abstract in html
Segnaliamo questo interessante articolo sul rapporto fra brevetti e ricerca accademica. La ricerca accademica è vista come un motore de innovazione ormai da tempo, ma la situazione europea circa la brevettazione della ricerca è molto diversa dai casi americani, spesso visti come buone pratiche.
In uno scenario come quello dell'università italiana, che vanno, forse, chissà, trasformandosi in fondazioni, il tema è di straordinaria importanza.
Riportiamo di seguito l'abstract in inglese.
L'articolo è liberamente scaricabile dall'archivio
SSRN
The knowledge produced by academic scientists has been identified as a potential key driver of technological progress. Recent policies in Europe aim at increasing commercially orientated activities in academy. Based on a sample of German scientists across all fields of science we investigate the importance of academic patenting. Our findings suggest that academic involvement in patenting results in greater knowledge externalities, as academic patents appear to generate more forward citations. We also find that in the European context of changing research objectives and funding sources since the mid-90’s, the “importance” of academic patents declines over time. We show that academic entrants have patents of lower “quality” than academic incumbents but they did not cause the decline, since the relative importance of patents involving academics with an existing patenting history declined over time as well. Moreover, a preliminary evaluation of the effects of the abolishment of the “professor privilege” (the German counterpart of the U.S. Bayh-Dole Act) reveals that this legal disposition led to an acceleration of this apparent decline.
