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Academic Patenting in Europe: New Evidence from the KEINS Database

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Francesco Lissoni (University of Brescia, Brescia and Cespri - Bocconi University, Milano, Italy.)
Patrick Llerena (BETA - Université L.Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.)
Maureen McKelvey (RIDE-IMIT - Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden.)
Bulat Sanditov (Cespri - Bocconi University, Milano, Italy and MERIT - Maastricht University, The Netherlands.)

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The paper provides summary statistics from the KEINS database on academic patenting in France, Italy, and Sweden. It shows that academic scientists in those countries have signed many more patents than previously estimated. This re?evaluation of academic patenting comes by considering all patents signed by academic scientists active in 2004, both those assigned to universities and the many more held by business companies, governmental organizations, and public laboratories. Specific institutional features of the university and research systems in the three countries contribute to explain these ownership patterns, which are remarkably different from those observed in the US. In the light of these new data, European universities’ contribution to domestic patenting appears not to be much less intense than that of their US counterparts.

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Paper provided by CESPRI, Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalisation, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy in its series CESPRI Working Papers with number 202.

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Keywords: Technology transfer; University patents; Academic inventors.;

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  4. Francesco Lissoni & Fabio Montobbio, 2008. "Inventorship and Authorship in Patent-Publication Pairs: an Enquiry into the Economics of Scientific Credit," CESPRI Working Papers 224, CESPRI, Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalisation, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy, revised Nov 2008. [Downloadable!]
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