This paper considers the impact of the intellectual property (IP) system on the timing of
cooperation/licensing by start-up technology entrepreneurs. If the market for technology …

This paper reviews the literature on the concerns stemming from university patenting and
licensing activities. Scholars investigated threats to scientific progress due to increasing …

This paper examines factors that influence the likelihood of a university invention being
licensed. Inventors' prior academic output is positively correlated with the likelihood that their …

We study how innovators can optimally design licensing contracts when there is incomplete
information on the licensee's valuation of the innovation, and limited control over the …

The effects of appropriability on invention have been well studied, but there has been little
analysis of the effect of appropriability on the commercialization of existing inventions …

In this paper, we develop a theoretical model of university licensing to explain why university
license contracts often include payment types that differ from the fixed fees and royalties …

▪ Orbital Corporation of Perth, Australia, invented an environmentally friendly fuel injection
system for 2-stroke engines in the 1970s. For nearly four decades, it has existed mainly by …

The patenting and licensing of human genetic material and proteins represents an extension
of intellectual property (IP) rights to naturally occurring biological material and scientific …

Invention disclosure is a complex problem faced by many university faculty members.
Existing studies have investigated related issues, but few researchers have considered …

Biotechnology is a well-developed industry which presents solid scientific roots. Before the
founding of Genentech in 1975 by Herb Boyer, an unknown microbiologist at the University …