National policies take varied approaches to encouraging university-based innovation. This
paper studies a natural experiment: the end of the “professor's privilege” in Norway, where …

Abstract Research Summary Innovative products and services are the inspiration for many
startups. However, founders find that the management of existing operations competes with …

Academic patenting has become an important part of the university-industry collaboration
and technology transfer but few studies have investigated the institutional frameworks and …

A central theme of university entrepreneurship—including the generation and
commercialization of university-invented research—is academic patenting (referring to …

Intellectual property regimes governing university inventions were quite diverse in Europe at
the end of the 1990s. Several European countries maintained the so-called professor's …

Traditionally, the mining sector has been considered a slow innovator compared to other
industries, like the manufacturing or pharmaceutical industries. However, we observe an …

Over the past 20 years, European universities have increased their propensity to retain title
of their faculty's inventions, but evidence on the value of such patents is at best mixed …

In recent years universities have been taken by a new wave of entrepreneurial activities.
Originally universities engaged with entrepreneurship mostly in terms of commercializing …

Is the Bayh-Dole intellectual property regime associated with more and better academic
entrepreneurship than the Professor's Privilege regime? The authors examine data on US …

Whether firms founded during or outside economic crises have greater growth potential is an
important question for both prospective entrepreneurs and policy makers. Existing research …